Hey, The recent comments on Mojo Nation prompted me to look at their site again. I don't see much guidance on how to set prices for network services. There's a mention someplace that business customers will build pricing schemes on top of Mojo Nation, but not much indication of what these schemes might be.
So what is the "right" way to price resources? (Preferably beyond the obvious "supply and demand.") Fleet announced at Hettinga's DCSB that they were developing some kind of spare resource market. I couldn't make it. Does anyone know whether they addressed this point? A related question - I ran into a friend of mine who had just finished an internship in options trading. He suggested it might be worth looking at options on spare disk space or other resources, as a means of figuring out how to make Mojo-type systems eventually profitable in the real world. Now I have a copy of Natenberg's _Option Volatility and Pricing_ to look at... -David