> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Hirsch [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 9:01 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re:
>
>
> From: "Shahan, Ray" <[log in to unmask]>
> > What hp should have done for the 3k
> >
> >
> >
> http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=74&u=/cmp/200
> 30117/tc_cmp/i
> > wk20030117s0044&printer=1
>
> http://tinyurl.com/4nlf
>
> "IBM Servers To Offer Temporary Capacity On Demand"
>
> I don't know.  People always complain here about artificial
> "crippling" of
> processors.  Also, are there really many businesses that show
> this kind of
> pattern of temporary CPU demand?  Or is it just that people
> want to have the
> ability to do an instant upgrade a year after they buy the
> computer and not
> decrease?
>

Besides, on the HP3000, by time your 3rd party vendors slapped you with
their fees for the temporary increase in CPU's, the example of $1300/day for
each CPU would likely jump to $13,000/day.


Comments are my own, not my employers... etc.





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