[BlueOnyx:07877] Re: 5107R progress with PKG providers

[Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet]

Hi Alex
Note that inline-responses are preferred vs. top posting... see below 
please.

Alex Jake wrote:
> Thanks for your reply,
> 
> I agree with where your coming from, I agree package builders need to 
> make a living, everyone does,
> but where I personally don't agree is say for example solarspeed.net 
> charges £52.36 for PHP 5.3.6 per
> server, if someone has 100 server's running BO that's £5,236.00, I've 
> tried in a couple occations to email
> solarspeed and they never seem to respond to my emails, no discount is 
> offered in their shopping cart for
> multiple purchases.

Hmmm.  I'm reasonably sure that if you were going to purchase 100x 
licenses, something could be worked out.  Of course, I do not speak for 
Solarspeed or Compass, but my guess is that they are tired of the crowd 
that says "hey, I have 2 servers, so can I get buy-one get-one free?"

> Quote: "All PKGs are licensed per server. So for each server you want to 
> run it on you need to buy a copy.
> However, we do offer discounts and bulk deals.", really? not when I went 
> to the shopping cart it isn't. I
> couldn't even find anything as to say how much discount is available on 
> multiple purchases.

You might try a direct email.  Maybe it didn't go through before, who knows.

Or, we are fortunate enough to have multiple PKG vendors so you are 
certainly free to choose which vendor (Solarspeed, Compass) will be the 
best fit for you and your needs.

Alternatively, if you're running 100 servers, you may find it worthwhile 
to roll your own PKG, or at least your own duplicatable procedure.  At 
some point, a certain economy of scale does come into play!

In any event, we have by now drifted far off topic of the original post, 
so I would recommend starting a new thread if you need further 
discussion on this.

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Chris Gebhardt
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