pricing on SWiK

[from bushwald] Startups listen up: you've got a pricing problem | Enterprise Alley | ZDNet.com

Mon, 06 Oct 2008 15:47:36 -0700

[from bushwald] Gnip 2.0 Launches, With A Business Model

Wed, 01 Oct 2008 08:22:31 -0700

"Basically, any time a service is tracking more than 10,000 people and/or rules for a certain data provider, they’ll start paying at a rate of $0.01 per user or rule per month, with a maximum payment of $1,000 per month for each data provider tracked." Can you make money off that? Is there a magic spread-sheet that tracks a hocky-stick of $0.01/user revenue to acquisition?

SoftBank Announces iPhone 3G Service Plans - Purchase of iPhone 3G 8GB model at approximately ¥23,000, ¥960/month, and unlimited packet usage at ¥5,985 - | SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp.

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 23:19:36 -0700

Pricing — GitHub

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:15:54 -0700

Pricing — GitHub

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:13:11 -0700

GoGrid Features and Pricing Compared to Amazon EC2

Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:17:20 -0700

Pay As You Go

Tue, 23 Sep 2008 23:16:27 -0700

In a recent post, Dave Linthicum talked about the Pay As You Go Challenge, and describes the benefits of Pay-As-You-Go in terms of shifting the risk from the user to the provider. Instead of the user paying for something upfront, before even knowing whether something works (generally, or in that particular use-context), the user pays only if and when it works, and can cancel at any time.

This pay-as-you-go model applies to software-as-a-service of course, and Dave urges that SOA vendors should adopt this model for SOA platforms as well, in other words, something like platform-as-a-service.

But there is a more fundamental economic basis for the pay-as-you-go model, which Dave doesn't mention. As well as shifting risk, the model shifts the balance of costs for the user - from fixed costs to variable costs.

Put very simply, the user's total cost equals fixed cost plus variable cost. Variable cost increases with volume, while fixed costs stay the same. (If you want a more sophisticated explanation, ask a friendly accountant.) Now fixed costs are subject to the economics of scale. If the user has a business process with a significant proportion of fixed costs, then the average cost will go down as the volumes go up. In some cases, a fixed-cost business process may only be economically viable if a constantly high volume can be maintained. But with a variable-cost business process, the average cost is much less affected by volume, and it is possible for the process to remain economically viable across a much wider and perhaps fluctuating range. In other words, a variable-cost process is much more adaptable to changing levels of demand than a fixed-cost process.

And this is where SOA comes in. Under certain circumstances, SOA can support the shift from fixed-cost to variable cost, and therefore can release a whole set of benefits related to adaptability and economic viability - the so-called On-Demand Business.

But only under certain circumstances. The problem isn't with the technology; the problem is with the traditional structures of funding and cross-charging within a typical enterprise or ecosystem or marketplace, which can make it rather difficult to establish adequate pay-as-you-go mechanisms, especially if noone else is doing it yet.

Thus pay-as-you-go is generally more difficult than traditional funding and charging mechanisms. If you are just starting out on your SOA journey, it might make sense for you to defer these difficulties until you have developed some experience and capability in other areas.

And this is where an SOA Adoption Roadmap or Maturity Model comes in. The purpose of one of these is to help you work out which capabilities you need in order to achieve which classes of benefit, and to help you tackle the difficulties in an organized fashion.

[from bushwald] Twitter / NewRelic: Hi All: New Relic pricing ...

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 11:06:58 -0700

"Hi All: New Relic pricing has changed. We are now based on a per host pricing model. $40 per host, no limit to number of apps for Bronze."

Virtual Trading

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:27:49 -0700

Virtually trade asset shares to enrich and diversify investment portfolios, locally or globally—no cash needed. And no mortgages, margins or loans to worry about.

AT&T announces iPhone 3G pricing plans - Engadget

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:02:48 -0700

New Sub Zero Refrigerator Filters Bacteria and more!

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:13:19 -0700

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New Sub Zero Refrigerator Filters Bacteria and more!

Re: [podcasters] Anyone do podcasts for a company?

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:50:23 -0700

Steve Eley of Escape Pod offers advice on how to create a scope and price for doing a company's podcast, as well as "gotcha's" to beware of.

Pricing — GitHub

Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:50:22 -0700

[from amaah] In Decade of Unlimited Rides, MetroCard Has Transformed How the City Travels

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:05:46 -0700

case study on price discrimination and the effects of predictable pricing on consumer behavior. Operators can deal with capacity planning and take the float from customers while users can plan accordingly

Two-sided market - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Wed, 16 Jul 2008 06:49:06 -0700

Pay As You Go

Thu, 10 Jul 2008 11:52:56 -0700

Rogers caves on iPhone pricing

Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:03:11 -0700

The Economics of Software

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:48:54 -0700

As Keynes famously pointed out, "in the long run, we are all dead" -- so don't count on any less sighing or groaning or check writing in the immediate future...

Why the AT&T iPhone Deal is Bad, But Not That Bad

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 21:52:47 -0700

[from bushwald] Costs of Working from Home : AntoinetteO

Mon, 07 Jul 2008 13:51:59 -0700

Hmm, being in Texas I still wonder about the AC. In the end, working at home probably evens out (at least, if not more!) considering I don't hardly drive at all.

Apple Watch - iPhone - AT&T's Pay-Even-More Policy

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:55:00 -0700

Optus 3G iPhone Pricing and Plans

Thu, 03 Jul 2008 07:54:58 -0700

AT&T Finalizes iPhone 3G Pricing Plans -- iPhone -- InformationWeek

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 10:54:22 -0700

AT&T offers future contract-free iPhone deal - Gadgets

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 06:54:57 -0700

So, does AT&T pay Apple the "full price" for the phone, and then subsidize it? That seems to mean that those who argued the original price was subsidized (applephoneshow) were wrong...

AT&T announces iPhone 3G pricing plans - Engadget

Wed, 02 Jul 2008 05:54:19 -0700

<sep/>something with. AT&T today announced its pricing structure for the next iteration of Apple's iPhone -- which you can plunk down money for come 8 am, July 11th. There's not much that's surprising<sep/>

[from bushwald] Sun announces 'unlimited' GlassFish-MySQL bundle

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:50:20 -0700

"Sun Microsystems on Friday announced a database and application-server package that allows unlimited deployments for a fixed annual rate, positioning the offer as a lower-cost alternative to competing vendors like Oracle. "

Sun announces 'unlimited' GlassFish-MySQL bundle

Tue, 01 Jul 2008 13:42:22 -0700

Smith Research Network - Robert H. Smith School of Business - University of Maryland, College Park

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:47:38 -0700

How can publishers keep their digital content from cannibalizing the market for printed material yet still provide new options to customers?

Open source to follow JBoss to the cloud? | The Open Road - The Business and Politics of Open Source by Matt Asay - CNET News.com

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 12:52:15 -0700

Open source to follow JBoss to the cloud? Following on its successful launch of Red Hat Enterprise Linux as an Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud service, Red Hat is now offering the JBoss Application Server on EC2.

[JBossCache] - Re: Error in using TreeCache from Hibernate

Mon, 30 Jun 2008 04:03:57 -0700

pricing on SWiK

[from bushwald] Startups listen up: you've got a pricing problem | Enterprise Alley | ZDNet.com

[from bushwald] Gnip 2.0 Launches, With A Business Model

SoftBank Announces iPhone 3G Service Plans - Purchase of iPhone 3G 8GB model at approximately ¥23,000, ¥960/month, and unlimited packet usage at ¥5,985 - | SOFTBANK MOBILE Corp.

Pricing — GitHub

Pricing — GitHub

GoGrid Features and Pricing Compared to Amazon EC2

Pay As You Go

[from bushwald] Twitter / NewRelic: Hi All: New Relic pricing ...

Virtual Trading

AT&T announces iPhone 3G pricing plans - Engadget

New Sub Zero Refrigerator Filters Bacteria and more!

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