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I think that many people would love to use ACS hosted on a server
connected great backbone etc. But there is this price barrier
because Oracle is so expensive. There is also www.openasc.org that
promotes using PostgreSQL instead of Oracle. Good.
What would you pay for hosting service?
Say you want to set up ACS system, start small (with little money)
but grow and of course you have expectations that you get big big big
which is why you want ACS! for your community.
Ta da!!!
There is a new survey tool released on Monday by Ken Evoy and company
to help determine the optimum price. You can check it out: Make your Price Sell
It is a really simple survey tool that you construct online and have
your customers or potential customers answer the brief
questionaire.
So, lets design a survey right here and get some
answers.
"The answers are out there!"
I will make the results public and will show various providers
what is a "perfect price". This is good for them because they will
then know what most people will pay and know how profitable it could
be. Users will benefit because it is what a majority would willingly
pay.
The survey consists of 6 special questions. What I need to
construct the questionaire is a clear opening paragraph defining what
the host service is.
Sample1: The host provides a _____ server with
ACS+AOLserver+PostGreSQL connected to a fast ____ backbone and
includes basic ____ support.
Sample2: Same as #1 but with Oracle instead of
PostGreSQL.
Please help me fill in the blanks for common current hosting.
Surveys can be distributed to this list (A Link will be in a later
message on this thread) and elsewhere Where?_____. Numbers are best
if we get 200 to 400 responses.
Thanks for your help.
-Bob OConnor
