On Wed, 18 Nov 1998 12:53:58 -0500, Lee Gunter <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >I am generally against tier-based software pricing, in principle; however, >I have seen more support work required of some of our ISV's caused by the >problems apparently unique to running on multi-processor systems vs. >single-CPU machines. This is merely an observation -- not a justification >in and of itself for tiered pricing schemes.. > Without any more specifics, I would say multi-processor problems are a result of problems at the OS level, not the application level. No sane application (unless it's a hardware monitoring tool, for instance) should care whether the system has one or more CPU's, or if it switches CPU's mid-process. If your payroll application (for instance) *is* sensitive to that, then I would say the application is poorly written, and you have created your own support headaches for which the users shouldn't have to pay. So I would think that multi-CPU support would in *no way* justify extra cost. Again, it's the OS programmers who have to worry about such things. --- Mark Landin "For anyone who was never good at T. D. Williamson, Inc. anything, technology has been a UNIX Sys. Admin real boon" --- my mom