I'm going through this right now. I'm sure we are not willing to pay the price but some VP wants a commercial solution not an in-house solution. So I have to get quotes from enterprise vendors and cannot get even ballpark numbers out of them without at least 3 meetings and where they basically try to get our finances (but maybe I'll get some tickets to NBA playoffs or something in a Faustian bargain). I never want to hear "we grow as you grow" or any form of that ever again.
Last project I could have spent that money to pay for 3-4 additional full time engineers for 3 years and built a better solution with open source because I still had to devote 2 plus myself to do integration. And then didn't have overpriced SMS for the next decade and licensing headaches and afford to keep at least 1 of the engineers indefinitely.
Last project I could have spent that money to pay for 3-4 additional full time engineers for 3 years and built a better solution with open source because I still had to devote 2 plus myself to do integration. And then didn't have overpriced SMS for the next decade and licensing headaches and afford to keep at least 1 of the engineers indefinitely.