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- From: ecf_stbo@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu (There's too much apathy in this world...but who cares?)
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- Subject: Re: To use NOTES, or not to use NOTES, that is my question...
- Message-ID: <14AUG199210253804@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu>
- Date: 14 Aug 92 15:25:00 GMT
- References: <hank.713072926@well.sf.ca.us> <1992Aug11.234206.23827@ttinews.tti.com> <1992Aug12.001822.19619@nntpd2.cxo.dec.com> <BsvJ2t.76D@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>
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- In article <BsvJ2t.76D@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>, mdchaney@fractal.ucs.indiana.edu (M Darrin Chaney) writes...
- >wherry@arkham.enet.dec.com () writes:
- >>hollombe@polymath.tti.com (The Polymath) writes:
- >>|>hank@well.sf.ca.us (Hank Roberts) writes:
- >>|>}One of my employers is looking for something to use for conferencing
- >>|>}on a VAX system, but has been quoted a $30,000 price for VAXnotes
- >>|>}(they're a law firm, with some 800 users). They find this unimaginable.
- >>
- >>boy. ~40.00 per user. gee that's sooo expensive.
- >
- >$30,000 for a law firm? That's a lawyer's hourly fee. Maybe DEC just wanted
- >to "give them a taste of their own medicine"?
-
- ackackackackackackackack..., HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
- I like that... That is NISHE! Anyway... If there are really 800
- on-line users of the system, 30,000 starts to sound reasonable, but how many
- people will be using NOTES, and is it the only thing the system is being used
- for? CPU based pricing in most cases is stupid because it implicitly assumes
- the system is being used for nothing else but that software. It's also really
- based on the purchase price of the system (Hey if you could afford that, we'll
- get some of that money too!). A beer says it costs LOTS more to license
- software on an aging 8530 than a microvax 3100-80, which is patently ab-soid.
- The big 'data center' systems have lousy price performance AND you get gouged
- on software (unless you go for per user licensing). The new tiny little systems
- have pretty damn good I/O and memory capacity as well. It would appear to be
- very hard to justify a 'big box' anymore. Is it really worth THAT much money
- just to get something that 'has a lot of future expansion capability'? Don't
- forget to include software price tags.
-
- Tom O'Toole - ecf_stbo@jhuvms.hcf.jhu.edu - JHUVMS system programmer
- Homewood Computing Facilities, Johns Hopkins University, Balto. Md. 21218
- > * OLX 2.1 * ease!Trim!eeeaaaassse!trimtrimTRIMeeeeeeeaaaaaasse!trimea
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