Software is not worth $40,000, I can get a good quality one developed for $15k tops.
front end perhaps. but something reliable which passes gaming commission requirements?
I'd also like to point out that Enterra is a trusted brand. They aren't some random person/team that popped up to create a client for someone real quick. The trust is a huge factor. While someone can probably make a site "cheaper," it wouldn't be the same. And when dealing with someone's finances, you want a trusted group handling it. The risk is just too great otherwise.
Though I am wondering why SmackthatAce says their Enterra client was only $5k. Can you shed some light on this? Maybe different options or something?
Can you gimme more info on what site SmachThatAce was running? Did he had a license? What license did he have? Enterra sells multiple licenses and features are depending on that. Our downpayment at the start in april was already $10k so $5k is absolute bogus.
And about the trust: indeed online gaming is about trust. and then it is better to work with software from a company who has been in business for 13 years and got their shuffling and dealing algorhytms certified according to gaming comission regulations and have the ability to add more features to the same backend, such as mobile, social network (enterra has a facebook based client for sale as well) flash, html5, mac, etc etc.
Yes it would be possible to create a custom solution but as you correctly point out: it has 0 trust, it requires serious stress testing against bigger traffic, it doesnt have certified RNG's, it doesnt have scalability and when ur spending only 15k it wouldnt probably be fit to hook up other clients to it as well. Besides, I am not selling for $40k. 25 coins is below 25% of the software price...