I just found out we spend 20K+ a year for HP support, while I pay $1, 500 a
year for an upper level support on our Zabbix monitoring software. I am not
sure how much we pay Novell yet though.



On 6/15/07, Alan Dayley <alandd@consultpros.com> wrote:
>
> Alan Dayley wrote:
> >
> > The Application Stack is further down starting at $1,999
> --[clip]--
> > I don't mind that the company pays for Linux products and support as
> > long as there is good value there.  My comment about the price for the
> > Application Stack is more a reflection of the boss not wanting to fork
> > out funds for software that he has be sold as "free" (no cost).  It is
> > probably a good value for many and may be for us.  I'd have a hard time
> > selling it to the boss, though since he expects no cost.
>
> That and the fact that the price of the Application Stack is MORE than
> the hardware and software that we did purchase.  In other words,
> purchasing the Application Stack would more than DOUBLE the price of the
> PO we cut.
>
> There is a hard sell!
>
> Alan
>
>
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