• wise_pancake@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    Why does Google charge more to enterprise users and why do they bother to pay for that?

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      9 months ago

      Enterprises usually need/want additional features, customizations or guarantees, like for example:

      • integration of a Single Sign-On system
      • on-premise hosting
      • Service-Level Agreement for the availability of the service
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      9 months ago

      Businesses pay for software with support

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        9 months ago

        What the fuck does Google know about support? They’ve never supported anything.

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          9 months ago

          Not the stuff us plebs use for free, businesses tend to have support contracts

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      Enterprise can afford more than individuals and all businesses always find a way to make enterprise customers pay more.

      For example when you buy a plane ticket, it’s much cheaper if you have a weekend between your onward and outward trip. Because business travelers will travel during the week.

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      this is incredible common. in software offerings, an enterprise account per user can be twice or more the price of an “individual one”. eg. an individual intelliJ license is 200€ for the first year and 600€ for the enterprise one