Low/zero cost is a benefit only if everything else is equal. Eclipse and Netbeans are free, yet people pay for IntelliJ IDEA. We use an expensive commercial GUI testing product because all the free and cheaper alternatives sucked big time, and support was either poor or non-existent.

[0] can be had at $10+ under a charity program at the moment: http://www.excelsiorjet.com/charity

I just wanted to list a few examples.

Almost all commercial JVMs do support AOT compilation.

Plus we are talking about the enterprise here, those values are peanuts in project budgets.

Also don't forget to add "developer time * cost per hour" writing repetitive code in Go to your price.