> Everyone wants to be charged only according to consumption, rather than > capacity. Imagine for yourself how "consumption" would be [reliably and > securely] measured and reported.
I also find that executives want PREDICTABLE charges. In many ways, this is at odds with the reality of the modern world. I think the original example was Victoria's Secret, but there have been many since. In the "old" days (more than five years ago) you could predict the load likely to arrive on your systems because those keying it in were limited in number and prone to RSI and tea breaks. Now you can't predict - those keying it in might be taking a break from the Superbowl or some other sporting event. She gets up to put the kettle on and get him a beer, and he (and a few million others) logs on to your site to check out the house insurance you just advertised. So IBM (and a few others) come up with "white space" and "on demand" computing. But they want their pound of flesh. Leaving out the inanity of charging a whole month for a one-hour digression - which will hopefully soon be fixed - we lack any means of going to the business elements within our companies and saying: "Hey, guys - Saturday evening blew our doors off and we had to go to 3x normal capacity - there'll be a bill from IBM for $60,000 but we did $4,000,000 extra business." -- Phil Payne http://www.isham-research.com +44 7785 302 803 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
