Re: [SAGE] Enterprise Documentation

[Dave Close <dave@compata.com>]

Gene Rackow wrote:
>The company really gave you a very simplified answer,...
 and
>The 2nd card costs about $1500 and took less than 5% of the CPU to
>saturate the network.  This card showed real promise for what we
>needed to do.  With this card, there were not enough slots in the
>backplane to saturate the CPU on I/O alone and would have been a
>great thing to put into the machine.  The problem is the manufacturer
>decided that it was not worth taking that card into production since
>the expected price would limit the sales to the point they didn't think
>they would recover the design costs.

It looks to me as though the card manufacturer gave you a very
simplified answer, as well. If you were able to test the card, it
had already been designed. Those costs were already sunk, so selling
some of the cards could only have reduced the loss. Of course, that
ignores the cost of packaging and marketing, among other things.
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