[PRL] Interesting article in LtU

[Joe Marshall]

On 12/2/05, Johan Ovlinger <johan at ccs.neu.edu> wrote:

>
> It's funny that he mentions oracle.  Franz apparently apply the oracle
> tactic of "well, how much money d'ya have?" when providing pricing
> information.  In addition, they want to charge by the number of
> running instances, not developer seats.  Both of these are huge
> stumbling blocks to companies developing software services (as opposed
> to shrink-wrapped programs) in lisp.

True, but Franz has been in business for about twenty years.  They may have
the only realistic pricing model for a viable lisp company.

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~jrm