Because it’s 100x more than what a small business probably needs (one server instance per year)?
Why pay $2500 for a lot of things you don’t need to get access to one when you could just pay for the one for $25?
Why pay $2500 for a lot of things you don’t need to get access to one when you could just pay for the one for $25?
If I started a tow-truck company, that would be a small business. I would also expect to invest more than $2500 into my tow-truck.
I trust a tangible analogy should be sufficient to get my point across.
No, he is saying that is too much money to spend on something you don’t need.
I am confused at what the issue here is then.
The business presumably set their price for their target audience. If that price is too high then you are not the target audience.
They is venting/complaining about SUSE not caring about small companies. That is it.
The thing people don't realize is that it's not just one company like SUSE that won't sell you anything unless you can spend $2500 / year, it's everyone with their hand out asking for a few thousand dollars.
There are several places where I could justify $100 to keep a single Linux VM running for a year, but $2500 is never going to happen. I don't expect anyone to provide support, but why not sell me access for one machine for $100?
I think the article is more like "SUSE Offers Lifeline to CentOS Users with 100+ Servers".
$2500 is what a lot of them would be looking to spend on a firewall, switch, and AP (total) which would have a 5 year lifecycle. They’ll have one or two VMs on a single server. So it ends up being $2500 for a single “server” (VM) if they need Linux for something.
The tech industry is out of touch with the small business world and it’s getting worse.
There's plenty of reasons why a tow-truck company may want a server.
Regardless, clearly I was talking about a tow-truck company buying a tow-truck and not a server, as I was trying to convey that the dollar amount isn't obscene for a small business to handle.
As I am sure you're aware from your stated field of work that far more money than $2.5k is going into tools & such.
Nothing with regards to my comment was to suggest that the service one would be paying for here is worth that money. Maybe it is or isn't, that not I was commenting on.
It is purely that X amount of money was not unreasonable for a small business to expect to expense.