Re: Saving the System i: Fight Pervasive with Pervasive

On 12/12/06, AGlauser@xxxxxxxxxxxx <AGlauser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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!

ah, your a socialist ;)   I can see your point but would much prefer
paying per user than have IBM intentionally gear down the CPU.  As a
programmer trying to write great code, I almost consider that to be
criminal.

> [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!

I did a Suse Linux install last month - I was very impressed. It went
faster, with fewer prompts than Windows.  But then I tried to program
Linux ...  forget about it. .NET is far superior to GCC.  Where is the
integrated call stack and exception handling support?? Downright
primitive ;)

-Steve