Usually means they are trying to sell to enterprise rather than small business. It's pretty much just a variant of "If you have to ask, you can't afford it". Pricing pages like this aren't about finding the price, but initiating a potentially months or years long sales process.
On that other hand, I guess they could just still be working out their pricing ;)
I hear you, and we are working on fixing that even as it might take some time. The challenge for us is that for an enterprise, alternatives could cost literally in the millions (see Oracle pricing at $100k's for just a single 8-core commodity machine). For start-ups, we have offered Citus for prices lower than $5k per node in the past, and we provide an entirely free community version as well.
Essentially, our take is to not have pricing be what stops you from using CitusDB. And if you are an enterprise, the value you get from using Citus should far exceed that you'd get from any other alternative out there.
Yes, it would suck to not capture the value you create, and I think you totally deserve to be paid very handsomely for this tech, of course. Oh, and please make sure to charge extra from the energy, finance and healthcare sectors.
It's just that "please call for pricing" means a negotiation with a sales guy, which many people find uncomfortable, unless they work in corporate purchasing.
No thats not really true, everything is sold for less than it is "truly" worth. Price discrimination works both ways, no reason to assume the seller will capture it all.
Most of the time when garage based uber hackers make a product they lose proportionally more. Not that this is bad, but higher tech doesn't mean correspondingly more profit.
