Pierce,
It's true that we haven't measured how many actual transactions (from a WO
perspective) an average user generates. But, the reason I started this
whole topic was that a single user is hitting the 25 tpm limit of the
developer license. And believe me, the user is not doing anything unusual.
Even if we assume a real user would transact at half that speed, that's
still a lot of trans/user/minute.
And you're right, Apple is very willing to work with us to come up with a
new pricing model for the low end licenses. But I do have to say that this
thread on omni group has helped us, which is exactly why I posted it to
begin with. The first thing our Apple rep told us was Apple is giving a
lot of attention to this discussion and has acknowledge the new pricing
model's limitations.
-Afshin Behnia
-----Original Message-----
From: Pierce T. Wetter III [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 1999 11:34 AM
To: Afshin Behnia
Cc: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: RE: Unfair WO4 pricing - the attitude of apple
>
> You are simply wrong. I AM assuming that all are using it 100% of the
time
> because they ARE using it 100% of a time. Have you ever heard of
insurance
> claims management? The users are constantly on the phone collecting
> accident facts and entering them in the system.
>
> -Afshin Behnia
This is where we have a lack of communication. A user using the
system 100% of the time isn't necessarily generating a transaction
every minute.
How do I know? I'm doing exactly this type of system. The users can
submit an insurance claim form over the internet.
50 tpm WO license, $1000.
Insurance claim adjuster: 10 minute phone call to customer.
Result: 2 transactions. 1 to pull up the page, 1 to submit the
page at end of phone call.
Usage: .2 TPM.
Maximum possible users: 250.
So the ratio isn't 1 user is 1 TPM for me, its more like 5 users to 1
TPM.
Now I'm perfectly willing to believe that your users/application
are different, that users sit there and click "reload" or something.
But as far as I can tell, you haven't actually measured this, it just
bugs you that there's a limit, and that you can't buy a 250 TPM
license which you feel would give you adequate safety margin. I'm
sure that is annoying, but realize that to actually get 250TPM out of
your server, you'll need to upgrade your hardware as well. Also
realize, that in my experience, Apple is quite willing to "work with
you" to figure out what you need and how to meet those needs.
Pierce
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