On: The API-ization of everything

[gizzlon]

Yeah, but saving money is also appreciated by those who actually make the purchasing decisions :)

[nl → gizzlon]

Surprisingly often that isn't actually the case.

There are a lot of reasons for this - both positive & negative.

In some places the size of your budget is a measure of your importance.

In some places once you go over a manager's personal sign off authority there is no difference between asking for $50,000 and $250,000.

[pjc50 → nl]

Indeed. This is why there's not so many profitable software products between the few hundred $ range and the tens-of-thousands; as soon as you need signoff the cost-of-sale increases enormously.