On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 07:19:26 -0500, Thomas Kern wrote: > >I would use CPU seconds rather than Service Units. Managers can understand >that there are only 86400 CPU seconds per engine per day. If you can get the >price paid for your z9, take 1/4 of that and divide by 365*86400 to get a >price per CPU second. This would recover the cost of the z9 in 4 years. You >can adjust this later depending on how quickly your management changes >processors.
You need to also divide by the number of processors in the box. Also consider that you can't bill for every CPU second. The system uses quite a bit. You might want to consider also the cost of environmentals such as floor space, power and cooling for the processor. Also the cost of the system software. Any application software is another story. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
