Sometimes I go to places like eBay, Amazon and Craigslist to see what is out there.
One of my favorite categories is software. (You can tell, right?)
So I go to Ebay today, and search for software and then sort for the most expensive product to come up first. Now, I was expecting a price on the order of $1,000 – maybe $2,000. I mean, even CATIA sells for about $8Grand.
So imagine my utter amazement when I saw something – SOFTWARE – billing software – selling for $750,000!
I feel like Professor Emmet Brown in Back to the Future when he realizes the power requirements to send Marty back to the future and screams “1.2 gigawatts!”
$750,000!
Now – you might be thinking, how on Earth could billing software be worth ¾ of a million bucks.
The answer appears more reasonable, though I am still amazed at the price, when you realize that it’s not for use of the software, but rather for the source code. So this is a sale aimed at developers, or rather, software houses that could create products from the source code.
I guess I just find sales of this magnitude startling since I tend to deal in somewhat more modest numbers.
- Bal
