Re: IBM i in the cloud (was social media)

From: Aaron Bartell
I do believe that if IBM did offer a service for $65/month that they
would probably lose money on that tier ...

Well, that doesn't sound very reasonable. How did you come up with $65/month?
I think a micro partition at www.rackspace.com runs $150/month, to start. A
10-20GB database under Microsoft Azure runs $200/month, to start.

Pricing for Amazon EC2 and Google App Engine are so goofy that I wasn't able to
figure them out. Actually, it has been hard for me to compare pricing because
it's hard to know what you're getting under Windows, Linux, and other platforms.

I think the dynamic changes when you move from a discussion about a development
server to a discussion of a deployment server. Force.com Enterprise allows you
to deploy up to 10 applications at $50/month/user. I don't think pricing like
that would fly in the K-12 software market where you're deploying applications
for teachers, parents, and students.

-Nathan