Step 5: Unlimited WO License?

Scaling WebObjects
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If we buy one more T1 line for nile.com, we'll be able to handle 240 pages/per/minute. Our database hardware can probably handle that, but our WO license can't. We can upgrade our second G3 to have a 100 tpm limit for $5K. That will give us 200ppm.

Yippee.com doesn't need that second T1 line, because we figured out earlier that it could handle 540 pages per minute on that one T1 line since its pages are so skimpy.

Next page: Scaling step #6: Ok, Ok, we'll buy an unlimited license.

Nile.com bottom line:

Initial Engineering $72,000

HW investment: $209,700

Network: $2000/month.

Max ppm: 200 (limited by WO license)

Max profit: $576,000/month

Yippee.com bottom line:

Initial Engineering $24,000

HW investment: $209,700

Network: $1000/month.

Max ppm: 200 (limited by WO license)

Pages/day: 96,000

Max users: 3840

Cost per user/month: $6.22