SOFTWARE PRICING FOR CLUSTERS

[Martin Siegert]

Quite honestly: No increase whatsoever is reasonable.
Is the product any different when sold for 1-4 CPUs than when sold for
5-16 CPUs? If the answer is no, I have a hard time understanding these
kind of pricing policies. And I actually refuse to buy such products.

Cheers,
Martin

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Martin Siegert
Academic Computing Services                        phone: (604) 291-4691
Simon Fraser University                            fax:   (604) 291-4242
Burnaby, British Columbia                          email: siegert at sfu.ca
Canada  V5A 1S6
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On Wed, Jul 24, 2002 at 12:49:41PM -0400, Jim Fraser wrote:
> With regard to scientific software pricing for clusters, what do you guys
> consider reasonable model for pricing?  Lets say the basic price for some
> given software is 50K for 1 CPU. What do you think is reasonable for
> increasing numbers of CPUs.
> 
> NCPU's     COST $
> 1-4        50K
> 4-16
> 17-32
> 32-64
> 64-128
> 128-256
> 256+
> 
> thanks
> Jim
> 
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