Re: IBM i in the cloud (was social media)

[Nathan Andelin <nandelin@xxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Aaron Bartell
> I do believe that if IBM did offer a service for $65/month that they
> would probably lose money on that tier ...


Well, that doesn't sound very reasonable.  How did you come up with $65/month? 
 I think a micro partition at www.rackspace.com runs $150/month, to start.  A 
10-20GB database under Microsoft Azure runs $200/month, to start.

Pricing for Amazon EC2 and Google App Engine are so goofy that I wasn't able to 
figure them out. Actually, it has been hard for me to compare pricing because 
it's hard to know what you're getting under Windows, Linux, and other platforms.

I think the dynamic changes when you move from a discussion about a development 
server to a discussion of a deployment server.  Force.com Enterprise allows you 
to deploy up to 10 applications at $50/month/user.  I don't think pricing like 
that would fly in the K-12 software market where you're deploying applications 
for teachers, parents, and students.

-Nathan