SOFTWARE PRICING FOR CLUSTERS

[Toon Moene]

"Robert G. Brown" wrote:

> I'm afraid I'm with Martin on this one, especially where scientific
> software is concerned.  I have no idea what you could be selling that is
> worth $50K for a single CPU license (making the software cost close to
> 100X the hardware cost) in the scientific arena -- nuclear bomb
> simulation programs?

That would only make sense if you used the nuke (the real one you build
after the simulation) as an extortion device.

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