Vendor performance calculations
There are roughly 30M sec/year.
Revenue needed: $150k/CPU/year.
- Average revenue at least ½¢/second.
Due to burstiness, vendor may have a 50:1 peak to average load.
- So it must reach a 25¢/second peak.
If average transaction is 0.1¢, vendor must be able to handle 250 transactions/second.