Overpriced enterprise software

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Overpriced enterprise software Anonymous 13-11-24 13:45:37 No.27073

How do enterprise software companies charge so much for their products when there are FOSS alternatives for them? It makes sense for applications used by end-users but I don't know why network firewalls, private DNS servers, proxies, VPNs, API gateways, linux distros, server monitoring tools and RDBMS systems need to be paid for. Do they provide a benefit that goes above and beyond their FOSS alternatives?

Palo Alto Networks' recent growth got me thinking about this. What do they do that their competitors or many other FOSS tools don't? I've also noticed that the prevalence of proprietary slop is much lower in development/devops than it is in cybersecurity and network administration. Maybe it's just my soydev bias talking, please correct me if I'm wrong.

Anonymous 13-11-24 13:47:28 No.27074

Small correction: RDBMS, not RDBMS systems. Made a little mistake right there.

Anonymous 13-11-24 14:30:33 No.27075

>>27073
corporate development is 50/50, devops is solid proprietary territory. consumer software development and webdev is for the most part some shade of f/oss

"no one ever got fired for buying ibm" the corporate structure isn't really good at managing software, but most companies are nonetheless profitable enough they can afford the expensive inefficiency that is corporate software

as a side note, it isn't a dichotomy, many big open source projects are also overpriced enterprise products either through a license scheme or by allocating developer time and support based on donations. enterprise java and c# libraries follow this patter for example

Anonymous 13-11-24 14:57:42 No.27076

>>27075
>devops is solid proprietary territory
I'm not a devops engineer, but I have some experience with deploying software to production. I personally have never used a proprietary tool for monitoring, build automation and testing. Of course, I happen to be an outlier and almost all major cloud providers have their own proprietary version of every major open source software.

Also, do corporations not have any privacy concerns when they give such granular access to their data to other corporate entities? It's one thing to use cloud providers because on-prem systems are not always feasible, and another thing to have your entire office suite on Microsoft. At least simple things like these ought to be self-hosted.

Anonymous 14-11-24 02:35:02 No.27087

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>>27075
I do wounder why nobody got fired for buying IBM but the same meme didn't apply to AT&T. With AT&T selling Unix workstations and servers while having had unlimited DoD funding along with running all of USs telecommunications. Yet somehow American enterprises in the 1980s saw IBM as the 800 lb gorilla and not AT&T.

Anonymous 15-11-24 14:35:56 No.27098

>>27073
Because buying services always wins out when bean counters and clueless MBAs want a solution to be:
>'fast'
>'cheap'
>'reliable'
In the grand scheme of things 'IT' is a giant scam.

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