Reply to: Most expensive software?

[darmstadt]

I have about 25 copies of various levels of zOS, zVM, zVSE and zLinux sitting at home with a street value of around a million dollars in the right hands. These are meant for developers but because they come fully loaded (DB2, CICS, IMS, WAS, MQ, etc) then dodgy commercial companies would love to have them.

[Xenophon]

Route planning software. Basically you give it customers, warehouse locations and delivery fleet and it calculates the most efficent routes to use.

But on a massive scale.

Buy a TomTom.

[zeitghost]

Route planning software. Basically you give it customers, warehouse locations and delivery fleet and it calculates the most efficent routes to use.

But on a massive scale.

I remember that stuff from Operational Research.

Vaguely.

Transportation algorithm and stuff.

Travelling salesman problem.

[zeitghost]

What is the most expensive bit of software you have bought for yourself? I'm going to have to buy a copy of Jaws For Windows for the little guy and it costs about £800. It is a screen reader - up to now he has had the demo version only which is free but is limited to 40 mins before the PC needs to be rebooted to start the clock again. Everything needed IT wise for blind people is bleedin expensive.

Vutrax.

£4k & counting.

[minsky1]

What is the most expensive software (single user licence) that you have had to order (in normal circumstances, not looking at the OS for cray super computers or the interface for a automated warehouse system. Has to run on a standard PC).

Just had a quote here for some software.

£40,000 + VAT for single user licence (have to use a dongle). *gulp*

Thankfully ClientCo is paying and not me. I just get to train people to use it.

Catia? with kinematics licence and FiberSIM?

[Sockpuppet]

WTF does it do?

Route planning software. Basically you give it customers, warehouse locations and delivery fleet and it calculates the most efficent routes to use.

But on a massive scale.

[Xenophon]

WTF does it do?

It is just a link to Rick Astley's 'Never Gonna Give You Up' video.

[Moscow Mule]

What is the most expensive software (single user licence) that you have had to order (in normal circumstances, not looking at the OS for cray super computers or the interface for a automated warehouse system. Has to run on a standard PC).

Just had a quote here for some software.

£40,000 + VAT for single user licence (have to use a dongle). *gulp*

Thankfully ClientCo is paying and not me. I just get to train people to use it.

WTF does it do?

[Xenophon]

for that I would expect it to make me a pot noodle and wink me off...

[meridian]

What is the most expensive bit of software you have bought for yourself? I'm going to have to buy a copy of Jaws For Windows for the little guy and it costs about £800. It is a screen reader - up to now he has had the demo version only which is free but is limited to 40 mins before the PC needs to be rebooted to start the clock again. Everything needed IT wise for blind people is bleedin expensive.

I have Tradestation 2000i ProSuite, £1800 new. Data is extra and support not included.

As well as pro trading software there are professional music mixers which bobble about the £1-2k mark.

Had an MSDN Universal subscription once (about £1800 as well), but I got that for free through a mate who works for Microsoft.

[daviejones]

So would I...

But you are a lizard...

[BoredBloke]

What is the most expensive bit of software you have bought for yourself? I'm going to have to buy a copy of Jaws For Windows for the little guy and it costs about £800. It is a screen reader - up to now he has had the demo version only which is free but is limited to 40 mins before the PC needs to be rebooted to start the clock again. Everything needed IT wise for blind people is bleedin expensive.

[zeitghost]

HRH would be happy for a girl to even speak to him...

So would I...

[daviejones]

No no, I would expect a Japanese girl duo to run updates once a week, then give me a bath with them in a hot-tub, massage and the full works aftwards.

HRH would be happy for a girl to even speak to him...

[darmstadt]

What is the most expensive software (single user licence) that you have had to order (in normal circumstances, not looking at the OS for cray super computers or the interface for a automated warehouse system. Has to run on a standard PC).

Just had a quote here for some software.

£40,000 + VAT for single user licence (have to use a dongle). *gulp*

Thankfully ClientCo is paying and not me. I just get to train people to use it.

I sell/install/support/etc. a product which runs under SCO/Linux which runs on either laptops or x86 servers which ranges in price from around $12,000 to well over $100,000 and is basically a single user system and also requires a dongle.