Re: ARARCAD for DevOps

On Fri, Jan 14, 2022 at 11:49 AM David Gibbs via MIDRANGE-L
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 1/14/22 10:45 AM, Rob Berendt wrote:

A lot of shops are in the camp "if they can't put the price on the
website then it's too expensive for me".

Well, pricing is often quite variable for complex products like an ALM
package. Not easy to put a specific price a website.

But if a vendor is unwilling to even give hints about a ballpark or
price structure, like "depending on your business size, your processor
tier, etc. you might be looking at $X initial cost for a small shop to
sky's-the-limit for 'enterprise class', plus 15% annual maintenance",
then I am 100% sure that we cannot afford them, even at their lowest
offering.

It could be that every ALM vendor, for every platform (not just
IBM-i-specific), has the same practice of shrouding their pricing
because "it's too complex". That's a legitimate and plausible state of
affairs. And if that is indeed the case, then I am 100% sure we cannot
afford any ALM package, for any platform.

I think we'll see more and more small shops, and even some big ones,
nibble around the edges with products that are more clearly defined,
more limited in scope, and more clearly priced; like trying out Git
for source version control rather than going with a more comprehensive
(and expensive) change management package.

John Y.