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> This is basically taking the tiered SAAS and trying to manifest that business model ability into hardware. IBM did it for years with mainframe pricing, they
by le-mark 5y ago
> This is basically taking the tiered SAAS and trying to manifest that business model ability into hardware.
IBM did it for years with mainframe pricing, they had excess mips installed and allowed burstable performance setups for a fee, on hardware you “owned”. Amazon took this strategy over, albeit without the ownership sham. Now Intel wants a slice. It’s turtles (ie greedy MBAs) all the way down.
- protomyth 5y agoIBM also did it with their POWER AIX boxes. The big difference was those instances were Business To Business contracts and not consumers. I get the feeling the consumer market will react differently to Intel.
- chaosite 5y agoThe threat in business to business contracts, in addition to "we'll sue you" for licensing violations, is "that's an unsupported configuration, you're on your own."
- pmorici 5y agoThis isn't a new idea for them. This particular implementation is new but they have tried this scheme before of selling feature unlocks after the initial purchase. https://www.zdnet.com/article/facepalm-of-the-day-intel-charges-customers-50-to-unlock-cpu-features/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/facepalm-of-the-day-intel-char...