Charles Mills wrote:
bigger datacenters should pay more for electricity
Well, yes, they probably do. Not more per kwh, but more in total. Less per
kwh, but more in total. And that's how most MIPS charging works also, I
believe.
As I more-or-less said in my last para., no one thinks anyone should pay
more, but most think some should pay less. Unfortunately, some paying more
is a necessary corollary of some paying less.
you joined the party because of incomes, not because it is more fair model
You bet! And yes, I thought I was quite frank in my first post about how
yes, we were "looking for more efficient ways of extracting money from
customers." It sounds like a bad thing when you phrase it that way, but we
were in that business, we had significant expenses, and were not - if you
look at the month-to-month picture - consistently profitable or consistently
cash flow positive. We needed money from customers to survive, and I think
greater efficiency is generally a good thing.
Charles,
I explicitly noted: I dont't judge it. I just wanted to say that tiered
pricing is a way to get more money from customers. Dot. I never said
it's bad. Last but not least: your software is *your own*. You decide
how to sell it. You can make the price higher for fat guys if you want.
Oh, in political correct world you can make discounts for thins. <g>
Or you can make the prices higher for european customers (IBM do).
Your product, your business, your choice.
However, on the other side, customers sometimes don't see any
relationship between the price and the prodduct. In most cases it affect
MSU-based pricing, where the product itself have very little to do with
the number of MIPS. Some sysprog facilities would be well-justified when
related to number of concurrent users (good old pricing model of Novell).
Sometimes I simply don't know what pricing model would be good, and even
software venedors do not know (or, at leat, they change their mind).
Regards
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
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