In message <200601270232.12528.Thomas.Sparrevohn_at_btinternet.com>, Thomas Sparre vohn writes: >On Thursday 26 January 2006 06:06, Ian FREISLICH wrote: > >> >> I wonder how many people still bill for CPU time? I'd go for the >> faster context switches. >> > >Almost all major ITO's providers - From SUN, HP, IBM, EDS etc. has offerings >that in some shape or other uses a "Utility model" based upon some sort of >financial model based upon actual CPU/IO etc. usage - It is a major area now >and provides one of the corner stones in the movement towards "Public Utility >models" Should we also add that all these initiatives are spectacular commercial failures because users hate to buy rubberband by the inch ? -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Fri Jan 27 2006 - 07:43:44 UTC
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