More fP sockets pricing insanity

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Since we got talking about it, I just looked at the fine print again on
sockets pricing.  Not only is it $995/5-user block, it cannot exceed the
main user count of the base license.

Apparently you cannot have a need for only 5 users in-house but a 1020
socket connection.  (Most sane platforms now accept up to 1024 connections
per socket, but since you have to do this in multiples of 5, you could only
do 1020 without risk.)  Not only would the $202,980.00 pricetag for the
sockets set you back ridiculously, you would -also- have to get a minimum
of $475 base (5-use runtime) plus (assuming the -best- case scenario
where you're buying it after the first year and get a 50% upgrade cut)
$50,490.00 for the other 1015 users in the runtime.  Oh, but wait...there's
more!  That won't work either, it's really $100,980.00 for the base upgrade
because it's not to exceed $975 for the 50% discount.

Grand total for something running as a server in fP at a fairly standard
1024-ish connection configuration, based on what's printed for pricing on
fP-Tech's web site?  $303,960.00.

Yeah, I wanna do THAT!  Forget about Oracle!  

Obviously there was serious market research involved before pricing this.

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