<story><title>OpenShift by Red Hat</title><url>https://openshift.redhat.com/app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bobsy</author><text>I don&apos;t like this &quot;Free&quot; business.&lt;p&gt;It doesn&apos;t make sense and the complete lack of pricing info really puts me off.&lt;p&gt;So I play around with this, like it and choose to stick with it. They then introduce uncompetitive pricing.. I just wasted my time. They do not need to give exact pricing - they might not know at the moment - but they should at least give an overview of what they plan to do.&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62; We will keep this free plan for the foreseeable future. The free plan allows...&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62; This free plan will exist while we develop and test the service. As the service becomes stable we will be introducing paid plans and you will be asked to upgrade.&lt;p&gt;These 2 statements make sense to me. The fact they mention nothing about pricing on their site confuses and annoys me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mhicks</author><text>Not sure where the second statement came from but if you can let me know the source, I can correct it.&lt;p&gt;I can represent OpenShift fairly well.  We will always have a free level of service and we are trying very hard to keep what is free today, free forever.  We have tweaked a couple of things based on user feedback but the goal is to have a meaningful free offering.&lt;p&gt;At the same time, we are getting constant feedback that users want more than just the free offering.  We also know that with pricing, they will want stability and predictability in pricing so we&apos;ve spent a lot of time to get users involved and a lot of feedback in the pricing before we launch it.  We want that pricing to be sustainable as well as valuable to users.&lt;p&gt;Hope this helps</text></comment>
<story><title>OpenShift by Red Hat</title><url>https://openshift.redhat.com/app/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>bobsy</author><text>I don&apos;t like this &quot;Free&quot; business.&lt;p&gt;It doesn&apos;t make sense and the complete lack of pricing info really puts me off.&lt;p&gt;So I play around with this, like it and choose to stick with it. They then introduce uncompetitive pricing.. I just wasted my time. They do not need to give exact pricing - they might not know at the moment - but they should at least give an overview of what they plan to do.&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62; We will keep this free plan for the foreseeable future. The free plan allows...&lt;p&gt;&amp;#62; This free plan will exist while we develop and test the service. As the service becomes stable we will be introducing paid plans and you will be asked to upgrade.&lt;p&gt;These 2 statements make sense to me. The fact they mention nothing about pricing on their site confuses and annoys me.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rplnt</author><text>&amp;#62; So I play around with this, like it and choose to stick with it. They then introduce uncompetitive pricing.. I just wasted my time.&lt;p&gt;No, this is not Google AppEngine. The platform is opensourced. You can host this &quot;cloud&quot; on your own servers or rely on some 3rd party provider.</text></comment>