[arethuza]

"The kind of perfect price discrimination they practice would be flatly illegal in any other industry."

Sounds awfully like "value based pricing" - which is a pretty common strategy in enterprise software sales.

[tsotha]

It doesn't sound anything like enterprise software to me. I work for a company that's pretty high up on the F500 list, and believe me, we don't let vendors charge us based on what we can afford.