From: Lucas Gonze (lucas@worldos.com)
Date: Thu Sep 07 2000 - 10:15:22 PDT
True but there are still bottlenecks: the time, trouble, expertise and talent
for installing and fine tuning hardware and software is in short supply. Raw
disks don't cost much, but disks that have been made ready to use are expensive.
- Lucas
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Adam L. Beberg [mailto:beberg@mithral.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2000 5:03 PM
> To: Kragen Sitaker
> Cc: fork@xent.com
> Subject: Re: computing budgeting (fwd)
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> On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Kragen Sitaker wrote:
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> > If I were building a timesharing system today, I would expect that the
> > majority of users would spend less than a dollar per year each for disk
> > space, RAM, and CPU time. I'd still charge them, but I wouldn't bother
> > to try to extract payment until the balance was over $10.
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> Rock on dude. You got about the same numbers I did, really tiny ones.
> Too bad the big companies still have a deathgrip on bandwidth pricing :(
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> The cycle/disk-selling models are starting to show their cracks
> bigtime. And I happen to know a couple major press sources will be
> ripping the models to shreads in the next 2 months. Too bad I couldn't
> finish my whitepaper before everyone else noticed, oh well.
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> Game Over
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> *dances on the grave while trying not to get draged in by association*
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> - Adam L. Beberg
> Mithral Communications & Design, Inc.
> The Cosm Project - http://cosm.mithral.com/
> beberg@mithral.com - http://www.iit.edu/~beberg/
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