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Sun Tries Subscription Software Pricing
Sequoia writes "According to this article, 'The company's new pricing model for its systems will be based on a company's employee count, as declared in a company's annual filings with government regulators. Sun will charge $100 an employee for a single package that includes an application server, a Web portal and security software, among other components -- all of which Sun executives say will work together in a more integrated fashion than they did previously.'" Sun's press information is a little more informative.
This is horrible! It will never work! This is the worst thing to hap....oh wait, you said Sun, didn't you? Thought it was MS, never mind, my bad. ;)
Fire everybody and hire them back as paid consultants!
My rights don't need management.
You mean I can get a personal copy of all Sun goodies for a mere $100? Here I come!
Does this mean a free toy for every third employee? Yay!
puts ("Python r0cks\n");
Yeah, something like $1.2 million in dog dollars.
Someone you trust is one of us.
Sounds like a newspaper to me.
I bet tehy hvae a tebilre tmie manikg tihs wrok.
This is slashdot, people are supposed to mod when people say anything about charging for software. Everything should be free, we'll all suppose make our living doing support for the software.
Have you ever been to a turkish prison?
Indians. Too many chiefs and not enough Indians. K thxbye.
Please switch to pen, paper and a hard-wired calculating device for all of your computing needs.
Here is an unrelated link
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I wasn't aware that Dell was a good example of a potential big Sun customer.
A Good Intro to NetBS
Wow..... Sun is announcing a pay to play scheme. This is great! It's a MMORPG right? This MMORPG is only charging $100/year per player, which is a pretty good deal, that's only $8.33 a month!
I hear this MMORPG is also skills based and they have many classes of character you could become. You can be tech-support, end user, programmer, system administrator, clueless user, and many more! This is going to be great!
"There is no spoon." - The Matrix
Mr. Loiacono said Sun would continue to sell individual pieces of the server package, but that most companies would reap big savings from what he called the "happy meal" approach.[emphasis mine]
Several years ago, Sun's incarnation of the 100Mb Ethernet adapter was called hme, which - depending who you asked - stood for "hundred meg[abit] ethernet" or "happy meal ethernet".
I wonder if Mr. Loiacono knew that and was making a subtle allusion, or if his choice of words was just a coincidence. Hmmm.
I want to drag this out as long as possible. Bring me my protractor.