2015-02-26, 00:44
(2015-02-26, 00:31)twelvebore Wrote: That's a pretty crap analogy. Both NASA and Space X have a contractual obligation to not kill the astronauts, regardless of how many dollars they can shave off the price of the high-explosives-in-a-tube.
And my wife holds me accountable for serving the media stricter than any client I have had in the professional world. I want 99% uptime just like anyone else. I am just not willing to pay extra for a part simply because its labeled "enterprise," while I might for a business because A: its not my money and B: buying the enterprise part gives me political cover if things go wrong.
Obviously all this stuff is trivial compared to human life or even the science of space exploration, but the fact is that the enterprise world is a completely different range of prices compared to the consumer stuff to do the same job (IE serve the file).