Splunk purchase

Pricing

 * Two licenses, free and enterprise
 * Difference between them: 500MB limit of data indexed per day. Full list of differences: http://www.splunk.com/product/2018
 * Cost for cheapest enterprise: $6000 for a perpetual license. Pricing: http://www.splunk.com/store/home ($5000 for the license plus $1000 for required 1 year of splunk plus support)

Bargaining

 * Pros
 * Slick interface
 * Adaptive - low configuration
 * LDAP integration on enterprise versions
 * Cons
 * Web interface misbehaves in Firefox (intercepts forward/back keypresses)
 * HTTPS support?
 * Questions
 * How is this different/better/integrated with Prelude?
 * Why should we buy Enterprise?
 * Auth: We can just firewall it to localhost and tunnel in
 * We don't need to hierarchy multiple Splunks,
 * Kerberos integration?
 * Extensibility (Written in Python?)