http://www.talend.com/blog/2008/06/23/price-increases-because-they-can/ Talend Open Data Solution Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:57:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.11 http://www.talend.com/blog/2008/06/23/price-increases-because-they-can/#comment-14925 Tue, 24 Jun 2008 13:04:01 +0000 http://www.talend.com/blog/2008/06/23/price-increases-because-they-can/#comment-14925 [...] How do these companies get away with higher prices during a recessionary period? According to Bertrand Diard, of open source data integration vendor, Talend, “because they can:” Because their customers are locked in by the proprietary model. When you have invested millions of dollars or euros in Oracle or SAP software, you can’t just walk away from it. And since you don’t have access to the source code, or to an alternative network of service providers who can take over support and maintenance, you are stuck with them, for best or worst. And this year, worst seems to be taking over. [...] […] How do these companies get away with higher prices during a recessionary period? According to Bertrand Diard, of open source data integration vendor, Talend, “because they can:” Because their customers are locked in by the proprietary model. When you have invested millions of dollars or euros in Oracle or SAP software, you can’t just walk away from it. And since you don’t have access to the source code, or to an alternative network of service providers who can take over support and maintenance, you are stuck with them, for best or worst. And this year, worst seems to be taking over. […]

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