Re: Software Pricing mathematics

2006-10-13 Thread Matt Simpson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Payne) wrote: > I've seen an IBM internal analysis of a Websphere Application Server > implementation that was > 37x cheaper on Intel than on zSeries. > > That's 37 _TIMES_ - not 37%! Statements like this always confuse me. How can somet

Re: Software Pricing mathematics

2006-10-13 Thread R.S.
Matt Simpson wrote: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Phil Payne) wrote: I've seen an IBM internal analysis of a Websphere Application Server implementation that was 37x cheaper on Intel than on zSeries. That's 37 _TIMES_ - not 37%! Statements like this always confuse m

Re: Software Pricing mathematics

2006-10-13 Thread (IBM Mainframe Discussion List)
In a message dated 10/13/2006 8:44:36 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Statements like this always confuse me. How can something be 37 times >(or 3700%) smaller or cheaper than something else? Since the original topic this time is the innumeracy of the masses, my

Re: Software Pricing mathematics

2006-10-17 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 10/13/2006 at 09:44 AM, Matt Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >Statements like this always confuse me. Why? They should tell you something about the author. >How can something be 37 times >(or 3700%) smaller or cheaper than something else? They can't. >If say