Scott Chapman wrote: >Software billing is based on available/consumed capacity.
IBM's is/are not. It's based on *peak* four hour rolling average utilization per month -- or, effectively, per subscription year for products that are not Monthly License Charge products. You can set whatever pricing scheme you want, I suppose. Your chargeback system could be based on counting keystrokes (and clicks and taps) on client devices, for example. That keystroke-based approach might even be more closely aligned with actual marginal costs of computing services than some of the chargeback schemes I've seen. In my view a bad chargeback regime is worse than no chargeback regime, and it's quite easy to have a bad chargeback regime. "Bad" here means encouraging perverse behaviors and/or discouraging smart behaviors. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Timothy Sipples IT Architect Executive, Industry Solutions, IBM z Systems, AP/GCG/MEA E-Mail: sipp...@sg.ibm.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
