Comments on: Sorry that’s in the extra bundle – but is that extra indirectly core to your product/your value proposition? http://www.bladewatch.com/2009/08/24/sorry-thats-in-the-extra-bundle-but-is-that-extra-indirectly-core-to-your-productyour-value-proposition/ Tracking servers and enterprise technology. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 11:11:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: daniel_uk http://www.bladewatch.com/2009/08/24/sorry-thats-in-the-extra-bundle-but-is-that-extra-indirectly-core-to-your-productyour-value-proposition/#comment-44694 daniel_uk Mon, 24 Aug 2009 21:43:13 +0000 http://www.bladewatch.com/?p=6807#comment-44694 Greedy vendors gota love em....you'd think in the credit crunch we'd be getting BOGOF deals....A lot of avoiding what you say is reliant on vendor negoiation and technical design tactic however unfortunately the lack of openess means yes we get locked in and those poxy vendors have the upper hand on every renewal...<br><br>Not sure why you say this has not increased OSS popularity, I see a larger trend in OSS popularity in the last 2-3 years mainly due to companies being sick of paying the likes of Microsoft and Oracle ludicrous volumes of cash for licenses that only ever 25% of the features get used. Add to this the rediculous issues with licensing proprietory software on VMware and you have even more reason to move to open source. Greedy vendors gota love em….you'd think in the credit crunch we'd be getting BOGOF deals….A lot of avoiding what you say is reliant on vendor negoiation and technical design tactic however unfortunately the lack of openess means yes we get locked in and those poxy vendors have the upper hand on every renewal…

Not sure why you say this has not increased OSS popularity, I see a larger trend in OSS popularity in the last 2-3 years mainly due to companies being sick of paying the likes of Microsoft and Oracle ludicrous volumes of cash for licenses that only ever 25% of the features get used. Add to this the rediculous issues with licensing proprietory software on VMware and you have even more reason to move to open source.

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