Sun tries new pricing model

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"fixed the pricing model"

"fixed the pricing model" 05/16/2004 02:58 PM

Sun offers new pricing model for
enterprises

Sun offers new pricing model for
enterprises 06/01/2004 11:58 AM
Sun Microsystems Inc. on Tuesday plans to kick off its quarterly SunNetwork user conference in Shanghai with new products designed to advance the company's strategy of offering new pricing models to its enterprise customers, including new versions of its Java Desktop and Java Enterprise System software.

Trustix Unveils New Pricing Model

Trustix Unveils New Pricing Model 05/19/2004 11:48 PM
theWHIR May 20 2004 4:10AM GMT

Sun to expand unusual pricing model

Sun to expand unusual pricing model 06/01/2004 10:30 AM

Microsoft's monopoly pricing model may
be cracking

Microsoft's monopoly pricing model may
be cracking 03/06/2004 02:01 AM
The combination of continuing security breaches and competition from open source alternatives appears to be putting enormous pressure on Microsoft's monopoly-like, take-it-or-leave-it corporate pricing. Consider the following report from ITBusiness.ca about a speech Steve Ballmer gave in Toronto yesterday: "When...

Sun's Schwartz to expand unusual pricing
model

Sun's Schwartz to expand unusual pricing
model 06/01/2004 07:19 AM
ZDNet Jun 1 2004 11:45AM GMT

Town of Bourton's miniature model has a
miniature model of the model (and so on)

Town of Bourton's miniature model has a
miniature model of the model (and so on) 12/23/2003 11:30 PM
Mark Bourne says: So my wife Elizabeth and I are googling up possibilities for our long trip to England next year. Checking out London sites and so on. An acquaintance suggested staying for a few days in the Cotswolds, a scenic Middle Earthy region west of London. That's how we found a page about the town of Bourton.

You just gotta love this text, which blends Ye Olde Scepter'd Isle with sci-fi gee-wizardry:

You will probably have noticed that when you take a branch from certain trees (some conifers for example), the branch looks like a miniature version of the tree, and when you break a piece off the branch, that looks like a tree too. Mathematicians call this property self-similarity.

Bourton has a wonderful example of self-similarity: it contains a 1/10 scale model of itself. Because the 1/10 scale model is a complete model of the town, it must contain a model of itself, and it does, a 1/100th. scale model of Bourton, and because the 1/100th. scale model is also a complete model of Bourton, it must also contain a 1/1000th. scale model of the scale model of the scale model of Bourton.

And it does. It is only a matter of time before a team of nano-technicians turn up in the town to etch a sub-micron scale model of Bourton on a silicon wafer, complete with mill, waterwheel, and a highly imaginative interpretation of the River Windrush as a stream of electrons.

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Adwords Closes down CPM Model in Favor
of CPC Model

Adwords Closes down CPM Model in Favor
of CPC Model 09/10/2002 09:44 AM
"It's now PPC or nothing, $50 credit offered to those who swap."

looking for a best pricing in Mumbai

looking for a best pricing in Mumbai 09/10/2004 01:32 AM
TechTree Sep 10 2004 5:47AM GMT

Out-of-Control Pricing

Out-of-Control Pricing 02/13/2004 01:14 PM
Swisscom and some other European hotspot operators are charging pretty insane prices for access: Swisscom charges over 5 EUR for 30 minutes, almost 28 EUR for a day pass, 145 EUR for one month and a whopping 1079 EUR for a year subscription. Seems like an odd way to try to make a business as I can't imagine many people are paying those rates....

More Pricing Craziness

More Pricing Craziness 02/11/2004 09:51 PM
Down here in Oz, we’re making quite a few calls home over this and that, and while both of our cellphones work fine, even God couldn’t afford the roaming charges. But you can call Canada from halfway around the world for 2.8¢/minute, here’s how:...

First Opteron Pricing

First Opteron Pricing 03/21/2003 11:24 AM

Pricing Craziness

Pricing Craziness 01/09/2004 09:54 PM
I’m visiting the Valley next week in connection with the what-next project, flying on some of the hundreds of thousands of points I’ve built up on some bankrupt airline or another, but I needed to rent a car out of SFO. A bit of Internet shopping produced what I thought was a fairly mind-boggling result...

The Art of Pricing a T1 Line

The Art of Pricing a T1 Line 09/26/2004 03:48 AM
While some people may enjoy a trip to the local shopping mall, shopping for telecommunication services like a T1 line has never been fun... until Anyion Services came along. [PRWEB Sep 26, 2004]

What is fair pricing for MT3

What is fair pricing for MT3 05/13/2004 05:03 PM
Their are a few articles out there saying that some of us only want something if it is free. Personally...

Differential Pricing

Differential Pricing 02/01/2005 09:33 PM
Sometime last year we bought some games in a GameStop store and got a free subscription to GameInformer. It's running out now and with the magazine came a card (actually, the "card" was wrapped all around it) telling "just $10 for 10 issues!". Not so bad. Except that's "in store only". If I renew by mail it's $20. I don't want to go to the store and I don't want to pay more than the "best price", so to the...

Apple over-pricing?

Apple over-pricing? 06/29/2004 07:18 AM

AMD's Pricing Puzzle

AMD's Pricing Puzzle 06/03/2004 11:36 PM
Opinion: In theory, competition between two major CPU makers should to be good for consumers. But the upward pricing curve on AMD's new Athlon 64s is an enigma wrapped inside a mystery. Does the company smell blood--or are they having yield problems?

Pricing and Internet Architecture

Pricing and Internet Architecture 01/03/2004 08:33 PM

Pricing and Architecture of the Internet

Pricing and Architecture of the Internet 01/03/2004 09:29 AM
Pricing and Architecture of the Internet: Historical Perspectives from Telecommunications and Transportation
ht tp://www.dtc.umn.edu/~odlyzko/doc/pricing.architecture.pdf

With telecommunications in a slump, the search is on for ways to re-invigorate this key industry. The main problems are clearly economic much more than technological, and many of the proposed remedies would lead to new architectures for the Internet that would provide for greater control by carriers. They would drastically reduce the role of the end-to-end principle, the main foundation for the success of the Internet, in which functionality resides at the edges of the network. The proposals to restrict voice over Internet (VoIP) are just one part of this trend.

Historical precedents from telecommunications for introduction of differentiated services and sophisticated charging methods on the Internet are discouraging. The almost universal trend has been towards decreasing price discrimination and simpler pricing. The history of transportation presents a different picture, with frequent
movements towards increasing price discrimination and more complicated pricing (although with many noteworthy reversals). Charging according to the nature of the goods being transported has been and continues to be the norm. Since the incentives to price discriminate are increasing, and the ability to do so is also growing, it is conceivable that telecommunications might break with its historical record and follow the example of transportation. It is therefore of interest to examine the evolution of pricing and quality differentiation in transportation.

MovableType New Pricing is Outstanding

MovableType New Pricing is Outstanding 06/18/2004 03:18 AM

Six Apart has announced new pricing for MT version 3.0 and I am quite happy with their decision. Having put my money where my mouth is I had already purchased an upgrade. I strongly believe that Six Apart has a long term vision for the product and having programmers on the payroll who are focused and have a team vision.

The Wordpress vultures are still on the prowl commenting on almost all articles about the MT licensing issues. With Six Apart set to fast track improvements to MT it will only be a mater of a few months before the product overtakes and leaves in the dust the remaining competition. [Six Apart]

Avid Xpress DV pricing cut

Avid Xpress DV pricing cut 11/04/2003 03:36 PM
Avid Technology today announced a new version of its award-winning Avid Xpress DV software that will be priced at US$695 (previously $1,699)...

iTunes under fire over UK pricing

iTunes under fire over UK pricing 09/15/2004 05:36 AM
Apple's iTunes music download service is accused by the Consumers' Association of overcharging UK users.

Google Sets IPO Pricing

Google Sets IPO Pricing 07/26/2004 09:20 AM

Zombie Network Pricing

Zombie Network Pricing 09/08/2004 08:51 AM

Going price for network of zombie PCs: $2,000-$3,000: Here's a look into the economics of spam hackers.

One indication of the going rate for zombie PCs comes from a June 11 posting on SpecialHam.com, an electronic forum for spammers. The asking price for use of a network of 20,000 zombie PCs: $2,000 to $3,000. Such networks typically are used to broadcast spam and phishing scams and to spread e-mail viruses designed mainly to create yet more zombies.

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Wi-Fi Pricing Droping in U.K.--Debatable

Wi-Fi Pricing Droping in U.K.--Debatable 11/13/2003 01:34 PM
This article points only to anecdotal evidence from a journalist to claim that the price of using public hot spots in the U.K. is dropping: In any developing market, service providers walk a tight rope between charging enough to cover their startup costs and failing to attract customers because of sky high prices. At the moment, the price of a subscription for Wi-Fi services is too high for most except the serious traveler, especially because there aren't yet enough hot spots. Hopefully a greater number of hot spots will attract more customers, which will in turn lead to lower prices. Maybe that's already starting to happen in the U.K. Interestingly, this intrepid traveler rants about how insanely high the cost of Wi-Fi is in Europe. He visited nine cities in the U.S. and had Wi-Fi access in eight. Just one of those charged a mere $9 a day for access. He then stayed in seven hotels in Europe and one offered Wi-Fi, for $60 a day and it never worked. Two of the hotels in Europe didn't have phones so no Internet connection was available from the room. To be fair, this traveler doesn't mention which cities he stayed in so maybe he was pretty far off the beaten path. Still, I've stayed in decent hotels in Europe that have these ancient phone systems through which you can't even dial up. By contrast, just last week I took a road trip from Seattle to northern California and even cheap hotels in tiny towns at least had dial up while some had broadband wired access. Since the wired access in European hotels is generally poor, hotel managers there might see a great opportunity in Wi-Fi. Wireless networks will be much easier for them to deploy in a building that isn’t already wired....

BT unlikely to be fined over broadband
pricing

BT unlikely to be fined over broadband
pricing 09/02/2004 10:27 AM
ZDNet UK Sep 2 2004 2:30PM GMT

Pricing a Software Product

Pricing a Software Product 08/20/2004 02:05 PM

Sun to offer more subscription pricing

Sun to offer more subscription pricing 02/13/2004 04:04 PM
Sun Microsystems Inc. plans to offer subscription pricing for more of its products as part of an effort to ensure a steadier flow of revenue into the company, Sun executives said this week.

CMS lowers pricing on ABSplus

CMS lowers pricing on ABSplus 06/01/2004 12:23 PM
CMS Products today announced it has reduced pricing on its award-winning portable ABSplus, the companyÂ’s backup and restore solution...

Licensing and Pricing Updates

Licensing and Pricing Updates 06/16/2004 02:02 AM
Based on the feedback we've received from the Movable Type community we've updated our pricing and licensing. You can learn...

Apple UK lowers Mac pricing

Apple UK lowers Mac pricing 01/04/2005 03:22 PM
In addition to the Apple Cinema Display price drop in the US today, Apple also cut prices on all Macs and displays in the UK...

Server Pricing Surprise

Server Pricing Surprise 03/06/2004 02:06 AM
I’ve been a little out of touch on computer prices, so I took the time to browse through the Dell leaflet that showed up in the mail. I got a surprise...

Problems With Broadband Pricing

Problems With Broadband Pricing 01/08/2004 08:42 PM
Interesting article at PC Magazine taking on the issue of broadband price gauging. He points out that, unlike with dialup, you generally only have a very few choices for high speed internet access to your home. The providers (usually cable or telephone companies) are doing everything they can to prop up prices - even though, like most digital things, the price should start to drop after a certain point. On top of that, MSN and AOL are trying to get people to pay more money for additional services that really aren't necessary - but many consumers think they need AOL or MSN on top of their cable/DSL connection in order to reach the internet. The writer agrees that, for some people, some of the services offered by AOL or MSN might be useful, but not on top of the always rising price of a high speed internet connection. He's hoping that more competition comes to the broadband world and forces down prices. Some of that seems to be happening already, as DSL providers have been dropping their prices to compete with cable - but it remains to be seen if there's really enough competition in the marketplace.

Pricing big question for new PlayStation

Pricing big question for new PlayStation 09/25/2004 11:54 PM
Thestate.com - Sat Sep 25, 01:12 pm GMT

Broadband Pricing Across The World?

Broadband Pricing Across The World? 01/10/2004 05:37 PM

Informatica takes pricing tip from Sun

Informatica takes pricing tip from Sun 02/10/2004 02:48 AM
Perhaps Sun Microsystems has started a trend in pricing software. Informatica, a Redwood Shores, Calif.-based provider of data integration and business intelligence software, announced Monday that it will use the single-fee/per employee/per year Sun Java Enterprise System pricing model for its PowerAnalyzer business intelligence software, which runs on the JES on SPARC/Solaris platforms. Although Informatica is the first of Sun's independent software vendors (ISVs) to do this, others are expected to follow the same pricing structure.

Lockergnome has some great DVD pricing

Lockergnome has some great DVD pricing 05/28/2004 10:46 AM

Lockergnome has a great listing of DVD's for a great price check it out. [Lockergnome]

Pricing software by means

Pricing software by means 01/09/2004 09:51 PM

Among the many responses to my post on piracy was one which suggested I price my software by country. The general idea is that it's unfair that someone in the United States is charged the same price as someone in, say, Russia, where economic conditions are much harsher.

I have to say that I agree with this sentiment. Russia isn't such a warez capital because it's a dishonest country - it's a country with many skilled people thrown into chaotic times. In order for some of them to maintain these skills, they may need to stay up-to-date with the latest software. But in order to be ethical, they need to shell out a week's pay to register one measly program.

I've actually talked with other shareware authors about this in the past, and a number of them shared my belief that charging a lower price in certain countries would be a better way to do business. Several of us discussed ways to handle this, but in the end it was decided that it would be so hard to manage that it wouldn't be feasible. Verifying the country of origin and weeding out fraud would simply require too much time. There are ways to automate this, of course, but most of us need to rely on third-party ordering services so we don't have much control over the purchasing process - so it would be up to us to handle the extra work.

Most shareware companies are one-person outfits such as my own, and we all find it difficult to balance the many demands of running our businesses. We tend to shy away from anything that's time-consuming simply because we often have no time left at the end of the day. In my case, I'm not going to implement something if it means I have less time to spend with my kids.

One possible solution is to skip charging by country and instead ask each customer to pay what s/he believes the software is worth. A minimum price would be required to make sure the order processing fees are covered, but the final price would be determined by the customer. This sidesteps the need for any verification, and could potentially even increase earnings since I'd get orders from those who previously couldn't afford our software.

On the surface I really like this idea, but the more you think about it the more it seems just as problematic. First there's the fear factor: I rely on software sales to feed my family, so I'm scared to try such a thing. But even if I ignore this (not to mention the issues involving third-party ordering services), there are still a boatload of issues involving corporate sales, etc., that would eat away at my time.

I'd like to hear other thoughts on this so I've enabled comments for this post. However, I'm going to disable them once the comment spammers hit, so if you have your own blog you'd be better off posting there and sending a trackback ping.

BTW, I should add that my posting about this does NOT mean that I'm about to implement such a system, since the ordering services for both TopStyle and FeedDemon are already in place. I'm simply thinking out loud about how such a system might work in case I want to try it with future software.

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