Comments on: It’s Enterprise-y Sir… http://neilmiddleton.com/2009/05/23/its-enterprise-y-sir/ in more than 140 characters Thu, 25 Feb 2010 18:39:20 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: TJ Downes http://neilmiddleton.com/2009/05/23/its-enterprise-y-sir/comment-page-1/#comment-81528 TJ Downes Sat, 23 May 2009 02:05:24 +0000 http://neilmiddleton.com/?p=376#comment-81528 Its a fair anology except for one major flaw: You still end up buying Enterprise support... which is generally about half the cost of the Enterprise software. So now not only have you paid 4x the amount (or more) for the "Enterprise" package, you've paid an additional 50% for the support, which Snap-On gives you free. I've worked with Cisco products for years. They do have AWESOME support, once you buy the support package. Still, the cost of the Enterprise hardware is hardly justified for what it really is (low powered computers running open source or minimalistic apps that do very simplistic tasks). For my money, open source and learning how to support it myself has turned out to be far less expensive. Its a fair anology except for one major flaw: You still end up buying Enterprise support… which is generally about half the cost of the Enterprise software. So now not only have you paid 4x the amount (or more) for the “Enterprise” package, you’ve paid an additional 50% for the support, which Snap-On gives you free.

I’ve worked with Cisco products for years. They do have AWESOME support, once you buy the support package. Still, the cost of the Enterprise hardware is hardly justified for what it really is (low powered computers running open source or minimalistic apps that do very simplistic tasks). For my money, open source and learning how to support it myself has turned out to be far less expensive.

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