In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Payne) wrote:
> I've seen an IBM internal analysis of a Websphere Application Server > implementation that was > 37x cheaper on Intel than on zSeries. > > That's 37 _TIMES_ - not 37%! Statements like this always confuse me. How can something be 37 times (or 3700%) smaller or cheaper than something else? As I understand it, if A is 37% cheaper than B, then it costs 63% (100-37) what B costs. If A is 80% cheaper, then it costs 20% of B's cost? Am I right so far? Then wouldn't that mean that 100% cheaper would make it free? So how can anything be more than 100% cheaper than anything else? If saying "37 times cheaper" is intended to mean it costs 1/37 (or approximately 2.7%), then wouldn't it really be about 97.3% cheaper? -- Matt Simpson -- z/OS Support 219 McVey Hall -- (859) 257-2900 x300 University Of Kentucky, Lexington, KY 40506 http://jms.cc.uky.edu/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
