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.

Comments

Re:Just like Debian!

[CausticWindow]

Not even are they missing a graphical installer, they don't even have any ridiculous slogans or meaningless pr mumbo jumbo while installing.

So fucking pre 95.

Re:What is the "system"

[IM6100]

For companies that make extensive use of Acrobat, 'output capabilites' is a small part of the Acrobat product.

Acrobat PDF files are editable, hyperlinkable, comment boxes can be added, etc. and there's a sufficient amount of 'security locking' built in to be useful in most office environments. And I'd certainly rather have the collection of numbered archival versions of my corporate documents stored as 'semi-frozen' PDF files than as Word or OO.org documents.