[9278] in Commercialization & Privatization of the Internet
Re: Cost vs benefit of internet services
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Glenn S. Tenney)
Mon Dec 27 19:52:29 1993
Date: Mon, 27 Dec 1993 16:52:15 -0800
To: com-priv@psi.com
From: tenney@netcom.com (Glenn S. Tenney)
At 1:05 PM 12/27/93 -0500, Barry Shein wrote:
> ... For example, I can
>easily support 130-150 people logged into our Solbourne server as Unix
>accounts. I haven't tried it, but I'd be surprised if I could support
>half that if it were used as a SLIP server. Granted that's not the
>most efficient SLIP server (or maybe it is, I don't know), but the
>point is that's well over a quarter million in machinery, doubling the
>resource price of each "seat" is going to affect the price of the
>service.
Barry, if your comment above is correct, then your hardware costs nerly
$2,000 per user for a maximum number of users (150 users logged in to a
system costing more than $250,000). If that's correct, than you or your
users would almost be better off buying a 386 clone with hard drive, modem,
and monitor from Price Club (for less than $2,000) than that big chunk of
iron :-)
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Glenn Tenney
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