tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1347211857845165663.post2905868108226570174..comments2023-07-01T10:18:05.490-05:00Comments on mike.mainguy: Some Folks are UnreachableMike Mainguyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00301743167330794774noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1347211857845165663.post-81583022690481811282009-06-03T07:51:36.048-05:002009-06-03T07:51:36.048-05:00Oh, yeah we have everything under the sun too... w...Oh, yeah we have everything under the sun too... what the heck are EU's?Mike Mainguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00301743167330794774noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1347211857845165663.post-78187816372854597942009-06-01T20:55:54.689-05:002009-06-01T20:55:54.689-05:00Oh Harvest, what an awesome app that was.
I have ...Oh Harvest, what an awesome app that was.<br /><br />I have to tell you a SVN story. In our neck of the woods we have quite the collection of tools: CVS, PVCS, SVN, ClearCase, MKS Doors, Visual SourceSafe and nothing. In my ongoing efforts to promote OSS tools like SVN, I learn that a loosely connected teammate in DE is also promoting the use of SVN as an alternative to the other apps in the wild. So I call him up to see what he's offering to his customers and he's created a "service" to charge people for a SVN repository. He had a tiered pricing model and one was 5 users, 25GB of space for 500EU per month! He thought it was a great deal. Now, granted servers aren't free but I felt obligated to inform him that it really wasn't economical to charge 6000EU a year for a free piece of software and access to a server that costs less less than 5000EU.<br /><br />I'm not sure that it translated well, but I told him I couldn't in good conscious rip of my customers and recommend his service. :o)Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12916407561487142949noreply@blogger.com