Re: Saving the System i: Fight Pervasive with Pervasive

Steve Richter wrote on 12/12/2006 09:11:59 AM:

Why are so
many IBM diehards resistant to user based pricing?

Well, I wouldn't call myself an IBM diehard, but I'll tell you why I don't 
like user-based pricing.  I don't like it because it seems completely 
illogical.  I could understand user-based pricing for support - the more 
users you are supporting, the more calls you will get, the more costs you 
incur.  However, if you sell me hardware or software, it doesn't cost you 
any more whether I have 1 person or 100 using it!  I realize that there 
are reasons for scaling pricing based on use (whether it be user-, 
processor-, or other-based pricing) - software development is expensive, 
so software vendors need large markets.  If you set one price for a given 
piece of software, you have the battle between pricing it in the range of 
smaller customers and needing to sell many copies, or pricing it higher 
but selling less copies.  It just seems like there has to be a more 
sensible way to do it than user-based!

[on XP it's] very easy to install software,

You should try a Debian-based Linux distro ... apt-get install 
<software-name>, wait for download, and you're done!

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