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
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> 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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