rad@mitre-bedford.ARPA (03/29/85)
Our company's computer center charges corporate projects and
departments for use of its machines. We need to ensure that the rates
we charge have some relation to what it would cost to get the same
service on the outside. The method used for pegging our IBM rates is
easy, since there are a large number of IBM service bureaus around.
We'd like to do the same for our Unix service, but this type of
bureau seems to be a rarer breed of bird.
Could anyone who operates or knows about a service bureau for Unix
timesharing out there in netland (if there are any...) be kind enough
to share their charging algorithm and rates (CPU time, connect time,
disk space charges, I/O actuations, etc.) with us? Rates for VAX
systems running BSD4.x would be particularly applicable to our
situation.
Direct responses would be appreciated; a summary will be posted
depending upon interest and number of responses.
Thanks,
Dick Dramstad
rad@mitre-bedford.arpa