Op 25 feb 2010, om 06:51 heeft Kingsley Idehen het volgende geschreven: > Ceriel Jacobs wrote: >> On Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:01:42 -0500 Kingsley Idehen wrote: >>> Anyway, lets discuss as I am very open to thoughts from the community re. >>> this important matter. >>> >> >> In our situation we would prefer to trade some workstation cores for >> connections. >> Instead of 8 cores with 10 connections, 2 cores with 40 connections. >> > Okay, will think about it relative to the new special offer pricing.
For your information, we are in the very "grey" zone of rather small SMB companies. The workstations over here we intend to run virtuoso on, currently have no more than 2 cores and a total of 3.3GB of addressable RAM memory. Within a few years that might be 4 cores and 4 or 8GB of memory, no more. These machines are relative small. Threads is still something vague to a non-developer. On such a relative complex product as Virtuoso even to me it is (1) not clear what/how will be limited and (2) which number of connections are necessary in a web-connected environment. The fact/feeling I don't like is that webapp users might need to wait due to license limits. I can better live with hardware bound restrictions. That is why I would like to offer another consideration to simplify and offer "fair" licensing for non-technical users. This could be licenses based on the number of RAM memory that can be consumed by virtuoso. RAM is easy to understand and easy to enforce(?). This might include a processor core number limit. For instance let's say on a workstation type OS, with 2GB or RAM, and a 2 core processor, machine. Could that be (just a starting point, don't be angry)... $ 49? Now you might think, I don't wan't to sell such tiny volumes. Sell them bundled: 10 x 2GB/2core license: $ 490,- It would be truly great if later on, multiple licenses can still be installed on a single running instance. Call it 'license partitioning'. Adding a 2GB/2core pack to an existing 2GB/2core pack would let the user extend his running virtuoso instance to (user can choose to prefer for maximization of RAM or processor cores): '4GB @ 2 cores' or '2GB @ 4 cores'. Three packs would be: '6GB @ 2 cores', '2GB @ 6 cores' or '3GB @ 4 cores' (when the machine has no more than 4 cores available). So the small user is able to mix and match. How would other "grey users" value such a licensing scheme? Best regards, ~Ceriel PS the credit card payments only at or below $ 500 line at the bottom of page [1] raises eyebrows, as there is no product offered below or at $ 500 (USD 499 +25% maintenance) [1] http://www.openlinksw.com/virtuoso/sales/vpricing2.htm
