How Much Is a Database Worth?
Samer Shaat
IS 3100
T/TH- 5:00- 6:15
How Much is a Database Worth?
1) Many small business owners have found it financially advantageous to purchase their own building. As one owner remarked upon his retirement, “We did well with the business, but we made our real money by buying the building.” Explain why this might be so.
There are three reasons why a small business owner might want to own the building in which they operate. First, the cost of moving around is expensive. Some small business might need large equipment to operate and completing a move might take months. This would interrupt the flow of the business and put a dent in profits. FlexTime is a good example. FlexTime, a gym has an array of workout machines that would be impractical to move over night. Most all those machines need to be taken apart and reassembled which is costly. The second reason is that historically, the price of commercial real estate has gone up. Which means while the owner is paying off his mortgage the value of the building will be increasing. Finally there is very little commercial real estate being developed. Due to this fact, vacancy rates have dropped and rents are rising.
According to Conerly (2011), Very little new construction has been completed, and what has been built is almost all owner-occupied or build-to-suit. Almost no speculative real estate has been constructed this past year. Thus when the economy improves, rents will rise immediately (p.1).
2) To what extent does the dynamic you identified in your answer to item 1 pertain to a database? Do you think it likely that in 2050, some small businesspeople will retire and make statements like, “We did well with the business but we made our real money from the database we generated?” Why or why not? In what ways is real estate different from database data? Are these differences significant in your answer?
Three times Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas L. Friedman wrote a book titled “The World is Flat.” Friedman
IS 3100
T/TH- 5:00- 6:15
How Much is a Database Worth?
1) Many small business owners have found it financially advantageous to purchase their own building. As one owner remarked upon his retirement, “We did well with the business, but we made our real money by buying the building.” Explain why this might be so.
There are three reasons why a small business owner might want to own the building in which they operate. First, the cost of moving around is expensive. Some small business might need large equipment to operate and completing a move might take months. This would interrupt the flow of the business and put a dent in profits. FlexTime is a good example. FlexTime, a gym has an array of workout machines that would be impractical to move over night. Most all those machines need to be taken apart and reassembled which is costly. The second reason is that historically, the price of commercial real estate has gone up. Which means while the owner is paying off his mortgage the value of the building will be increasing. Finally there is very little commercial real estate being developed. Due to this fact, vacancy rates have dropped and rents are rising.
According to Conerly (2011), Very little new construction has been completed, and what has been built is almost all owner-occupied or build-to-suit. Almost no speculative real estate has been constructed this past year. Thus when the economy improves, rents will rise immediately (p.1).
2) To what extent does the dynamic you identified in your answer to item 1 pertain to a database? Do you think it likely that in 2050, some small businesspeople will retire and make statements like, “We did well with the business but we made our real money from the database we generated?” Why or why not? In what ways is real estate different from database data? Are these differences significant in your answer?
Three times Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas L. Friedman wrote a book titled “The World is Flat.” Friedman
Cited: Conerly, B. (2011, December 13). Should a business buy its own building?. Forbes, Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/sites/billconerly/2011/12/13/should-a-business-buy-its-own-building/ Friedman, T. (2005). The World is Flat. (p. 8). New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.