Your software engineer, have a manager, was hired by the Human Resource department based on a contract written by the legal team. Your company also most likely has sales persons, marketing, project management and a product development team. Then you have office cost, health insurance plans, etc.

Health insurance and other benefits add up.

Soooooo I realized that commercial software is no longer onpremise (Oracle) but SaaS. :D

Anecdotally, $2,000 per user per year would be a really expensive SaaS app (right?). Not exactly apples to apples but so far I think $2,000/user/yr is a good ballpark for open source value. Note also that the blog post indicates a 50% markdown in labor value because companies pay a tax to direct employee time, so people should expect to get paid less when working self-determinedly on open source.

Okay this is really complicated. D:

https://wintelguy.com/oracle-db-licensing-calc.pl

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