On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 10:49:40 -0800, Gerhard Adam wrote: >> You're not going to have that overhead for only one day. 0.5% of a $10 >> Million computer is $50,000. > >... This simple example is based on the notion of the computer costing >$10,000,000 every day.
No, it isn't. It's based upon the total life cost and assumes that the processor is kept until it has very little value. >... The notion of a single >number metric for chargeback is every bit as ludicrous as suggesting there >is a single-number performance value. I agree completely with this. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
