Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2011 10:37:07 -0700 From: David Brodbeck <gull@gull.us> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Turning system accounting data into money Message-ID: <CAHhngE0X5Z6ZebX5rjxP0v8J=zQJHgofexrzVGhErq9BoSE8Rg@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20111011222327.6002c397@dijkstra> References: <20111011160619.840c69f8.freebsd@edvax.de> <20111011222327.6002c397@dijkstra>
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On Tue, Oct 11, 2011 at 1:23 PM, Christopher J. Ruwe <cjr@cruwe.de> wrote: > So, systems that do what you want (and customers who want to pay on a per use basis) must be around for quite some time. Yeah, this was the normal way of doing things for many years on "large" systems, back when a "large system" was a multiuser UNIX box the size of a refrigerator. For a long time it went away, as computer time got "too cheap to meter," so a lot of the accounting tools that exist in UNIX are a bit foreign to modern admins. We're seeing a bit of a resurgence of the pay-for-usage model with services like Amazon EC2.
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