IMHO, the problem is not with tiered pricing, but the fact that mainframes are getting more powerful. At any given time the top of the line mainframe is about twice as powerful as the ones available just a couple of years ago, so the cost of the software doubles.
z/OS.e costs about a tenth of z/OS, but if you look at the cost of running z/OS.e on today's largest processor, it's about as much as it costs to run z/OS on the largest processor that was available when z/OS.e was introduced. The upward creep of software prices is the real problem, and I believe that IBM needs to take drastic steps to reduce software costs. The small steps that they have made in adjusting the MSU ratings of the newer processors are inadequate. Tom Marchant On Sun, 4 Jun 2006 09:30:39 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <shmuel+ibm- [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/04/2006 > at 02:18 PM, "R.S." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >>So, I see you joined the party because of incomes, not because it is >>more fair model, or other reason. Just - bigger isntallation means >>more money to spend. Using this idea bigger datacenters should pay >>more for electricity or tape carts (blank). > >So should he price the small shops out of the market by setting the >price too high lose money on development by setting the price too low >or simply not develop the product so that both the big and the small >shops lose? Those are his choices. > >>Why not ? > >They should pay more, but in practice they pay less because of bulk >discounts. Is that fair? > >>I don't want to judge it. > >Then stop judging it. > >>Sometimes you invest, work hard, but you have no >>incomes. > >And when he finally does get an income you whine about it. He's not >exerting monopoly powers to extort money like some software vendors; >in fact, he's not big enough to do so. He's simply trying to set a >pricing model that allows him to make a reasonable profit on the time >and money he's invested. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
