Positron looks like the next version of Rstudio, which is currently free. Do you think the plan is to phase out support for the free product and push users into the paid one?
Positron inherits many ideas from RStudio, but is a separate project with an intentionally different set of tradeoffs; it gains multi-language/multi-session support, better configuration/extensibility, etc. but at the expense of RStudio's simplicity and support for many R-only workflows.
We're still investing in RStudio and while the products have some overlap there's no attempt to convert people from one to the other.
I am talking about the RStudio Server and Connect - these are really expensive. One of the sales reps claimed that it is so expensive because they are a PBC and support open-source development. As in if they were just for profit it would be cheaper, but we should feel good about paying more. I could not take it.
As an admin and advocate for Posit Teams, Connect and Server filled a niche where a single admin could spin up infra and allow for anything deployable by end users without having to worry about scaling.
It paid for itself in terms of scientists spinning up their own projects without having to provision server hardware, VMs, or anything else.
If you take advantage of all the featuers in Teams, perhaps. But we needed a tiny bit from Workbench, a little bit from Connect, and sliver from Package Manager - and Teans ended up eating a huge portion of our IT bill, effectively stunting our efficiency as a research organization. Over the years, while our use case did not change, our Posit bill more than doubled.
