Re: [cobalt-users] 16 or 32 MB Ram?

[Kris Dahl <kris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 1/10/00 12:37 PM, Jeff Lasman at jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> At 08:12 AM 1/10/00  Kris Dahl wrote:
> 
>> Is the price reflecting anything else besides the memory?  If so, that's
>> quite a racket the are selling, because they are making 50% more for like a
>> 15% upgrade in price.
> 
> Have you ever been in the colocation business?  $100/month is a loss-leader
> price; you can't really make money on it.

So true.  I've been in the co-location business, and am of the opinion that
most all of it is a loss leader at even $150.  Or even at $250.00.
 
> You (and they) might also consider you doing more (i.e., using more
> bandwidth/transfer) with more memory.

That is true that you are limited with the hardware, but doesn't it make
more sense to not pussy-foot around the issue and just charge by the
bandwidth?

>> I had no idea that you could even GET a 16MB Raq2.  I wouldn't consider it
>> an option.  I would just act like $149.00 is the starting price for a Raq2
>> lease.
> 
> Maybe you can't.  Maybe they'll tell you it's out of stock <wry grin>.

I bet you that they take the memory OUT of the 32M Raq2 a offer 'upgrades'
later down the road, or put them in other machines.

It is beginning to sound a more like they are using that memory as a QoS /
Governing mechanism.

-k