I'll say this as a developer working for years in the US for a EU-based company.

Ignoring GDPR, we spend a significant amount of time developing solutions that maintain compliance EU or country-specific laws (Germany and France are pretty notorious). We do charge for these compliance levels - it's not free. We do the same for other parts of the world too, from Argentina to Australia. But the EU is on a whole other level for regulation and other geopolitical restrictions.

In our specific field, many of our competitors just choose not to deal with it and I think that's what the OP is getting at. If you are a company in Germany shopping for software or SaaS solutions, the market is much smaller and more expensive than if you are in US, Canada, Brazil, or Singapore. That is a drag on your ability to build and sell whatever you are doing.

What do you mean the ACA didn't do anything? It expanded the Mental Health Parity Act to include all insurance. Starting in 2014, you can no longer find insurance that excludes mental health and substance abuse treatment.

These two acts have made professional mental health treatment accessible to most Americans now. We certainly have a long way to go, but things are a lot better today than they were 5 years ago.

This was the comment I was looking for. I can't believe a 150 person company needs 4 (or 3.5) developers working on its ERP system. You either have the wrong ERP for the job or incompetent developers.

That's between $250,000 to $500,000/year to support an ERP system. You could outsource the whole think to the most expensive provider and not pay half of that. We do massive ERP automation projects for Fortune 500 companies at a fraction of that cost with even lower on-going maintenance.

It's not obvious because apparently people are not taught what the symbol "=" means. This is what happens when teaching become regurgitating problems out of a textbook so kids can pass a test.

+1...if I could.

Again Slashdot delivers slow, out-of-date news.

That still doesn't help the fact that I feel ripped off every time I buy something at B&N. Is that really the experience you want your customers to come away with?

This isn't my service, but our hosting/data center provider's. They actually do guarantee IOPS when I look at the specifics.

Our data center provider offers storage on their FC SAN ( > 150mbps I/O) at a cost of $2.50/GB/month and an additional $2.50/GB for backups. This includes 24x7 support, 99.99% uptime, and is hosted in a tier 3+ data center. My guess is that smaller SANs cost more per GB, but you are getting boned at $30/GB.

On the other hand, if you are requiring some sort of high performance DAS with off site replication, then I bet the cost is considerably higher.

I recently had a hotel leave one of those quick check-out forms partially slid under my door. The problem was that it had my credit card information printed on it. It would have been quite easy to walk down the how and grab a dozen names, credit card numbers and expiration dates. On top of that, who knows what happens to the forms once you sign them as I highly doubt they go through a shredder.