Billy,

Can you verify this pricing information that came from your sales staff? If its not correct, please provide the correct pricing. For us, with three developers working on this full time, we would have startup costs with support of $30k to $50k, then an average cost of around $300 per appliance. So that is an increased cost of $60k to $80k for using rPath. After evaluating rPath, I do not see $60k of value added even when maintaining multiple products! Can you explain where the value is that justifies this level of cost?

rBuilder cost per developer - US$5000.00

Then you charge per unit shipped? So if we shipped one appliance it costs US$500.00 per year, if we ship 100 appliances then it goes down to about $330 per appliance? The floor is about $100 per appliance if you ship thousands?

Then for support, we must pay US$15k for 5x12 or $35k for 24x7.

That support covers just support with rPath components - rPath Linux, rAPA, and conary.

Thanks

Marcus