A friend asked me an interesting question: what available, commodity software has the highest ratio of "cost per license / bytes"? He guessed Bloomberg terminals, I guessed kdb+. Anybody have good leads? (I know SaaS and annual licenses make this wonky, we're doing ballpark)
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So far the best _confirmed_ price is a Dyalog license, which is approx 10 USD / mb / year. But I think the cost of the actual most expensive program will be much higher than that. https://www.dyalog.com/prices-and-licences.htm#devlicprice …
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A developer license for jd, the J analog to kdb+, is 3000 USD for 468 kb, or approx 6400 USD / mb.
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At those prices, I can't imagine any non-APL software topping that. It'd be the equivalent of paying 6.4 million dollars for a gigabyte of program. (If we include the entire J executable, it's "only" ~ 250 / mb.)
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Anybody know deets on RTOSes? One of them, VxWorks, looks like it can cost tens of thousands / mb.
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Replying to @hillelogram
Stuff that's per-core licensed on a modern high core box can also have extremely high costs. SQL server is $15k per core, put that on a 256 core box and it's almost $4m/yr. I think SQL server is too big to win, but something with a similar license that's smaller could win.
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Also, Google says that the SQL server binary is 8000 bytes :Ppic.twitter.com/rNPJlote5w
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