Also, on your Edge licenses, the cost of support is cheap (still a percentage of the cost, but since the license is less than $2K USD, the premium support is only like $500USD or less if you don't want premium support).
The video is amazing.
I understand your frustration but honestly this seems to be more of an architecture/network design issue rather than Ignitionâs fault. I mean, you could have the exactly same issue with any other scada/iot platform. And also, the connectivity is always the first and foremost topic we start discussing when there is request for a new project. And there are ALWAYS issues with it 
I am really interested what communication protocol you used and how did you solve it with the another software platform. In general, low-bandwidth/high-latency network is something MQTT was design for and should have no issue with this scenario. But, even though MQTT is a simple protocol (specially if you donât need to use sparkplug b) and there are not too many options to configure, one must really have a good knowledge to configure it properly on both client-side and broker-side.
I share your view as I do work with Aveva for 2 decades, yet I have seen recently scenarios where Aveva was able to give discounts so high, that Ignition was actually expensive for the customer.
It is also true that customers use to consider MS SQL licensing (which is enormous) as a must regardless of platform they choose. So even though the Aveva will at-the-end be always much more expensive than Ignition, it may not be obvious.
This video has good timing for this discussion. Here's a link for others also curious about Aveva pricing (link goes to the point they talk about pricing)
I donât want to go into details about Aveva, as I believe this forum isnât meant for that. Iâll just add that when I listened to this podcast and heard John Krajewski describe Aveva, it felt like he was talking about something different from what I have to use on daily basis.
Definitely going to use that one! Great comparison 
Seems they didnât like people seeing the video, it shows as private now
That's funny. They must have gotten some bad feedback or didn't like that he kept comparing Aveva to Ignition.
Try telling it to watch on YouTube and see if that works. They may just be blocking it coming from the forums.
Youtube worked for me.
So its $170, per user per month, minimum of 25 users, or 51k into perpetuity?? Yeesh. How can you afford not to buy that?
If your server to user ratio is high (lots of servers, few users), then it might not be a bad deal, but if you're running a standard setup with a pair of redundant servers and a dozen operators for your various shifts (majority of places I've set up plants are this size), then it makes zero sense.
Hopefully, IA does not get acquired resulting in a pricing model overhaul.
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Full stop, lol
If we get acquired I encourage you all to bail.
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I am very confident that will never happen and I hope Iâm right.
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Will the dev team bail too, like MySQLâMariaDB? =D
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