Please answer about cost feasibility. I asked this question twice before asking specifically about cost feasibility and this was not discussed in the response. I need to know about cost feasibility.

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Wilma Baker, Jerry Barker, and Chris Bickel met in June 2020 at a convention of resort owners and tourism operators. They sat next to each other by chance while waiting for a presentation; after introducing themselves and laughing at the odd sound of their three names, they were surprised to learn that they managed similar businesses. Wilma Baker lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and specializes in renting homes and apartments to visitors to Santa Fe. Jerry Barker lives in Whistler Village, British Columbia, and specializes in renting condos to skiers and other visitors to the Whistler/Blackcomb Resort. Chris Bickel lives in Chatham, Massachusetts, and specializes in renting homes and condos to vacationers to Cape Cod.

The three agreed to have lunch after the presentation. During lunch, they shared frustrations about the difficulty of obtaining new customers, given the numerous travel opportunities available via the Internet today. Further, the rise in the value of the dollar over the euro has created substantial competition for North American tourism.

As the conversation developed, they began to wonder if there was some way to combine forces (i.e., they were seeking a competitive advantage from an alliance). So, they decided to skip one of the next days presentations and meet to discuss ways to form an alliance. Ideas they wanted to discuss further were sharing customer data, developing a joint reservation service, and exchanging property listings.

As they talked, it became clear they had no interest in merging their businesses; each wanted to stay independent. They also discovered that each was very concerned, even paranoid, about protecting their existing customer base from poaching. Still, the conflict was not as bad as it first seemed. Barkers business was primarily the ski trade, and winter was his busiest season; Bickels business was mostly Cape Cod vacations, and she was busiest during the summer. Bakers high season was the summer and fall. So, it seemed there was enough difference in their high seasons that they would not necessarily cannibalize their businesses by selling the others offerings to their own customers.

The question then became how to proceed. Given their desire to protect their own customers, they did not want to develop a common customer database. The best idea seemed to be to share data about properties. That way they could keep control of their customers but still have an opportunity to sell time at the others properties.

They discussed several alternatives. Each could develop her or his own property database, and the three could then share those databases over the Internet. Or they could develop a centralized property database that they would all use. Or they could find some other way to share property listings.

Because we do not know Baker, Barker, and Bickels detailed requirements, you cannot develop a plan for a specific system. In general, however, they first need to decide how elaborate an information system they want to construct. Consider the following two alternatives:

Alternative A. They could build a simple system centered on email. With it, each company sends property descriptions to the others via email. Each independent company then forwards these descriptions to its own customers, also using email. When a customer makes a reservation for a property, that request is then forwarded back to the property manager via email.

Alternative B. They could construct a more complex system using a cloud-based, shared database that contains data on all their properties and reservations. Because reservations tracking is a common business task, it is likely that they can license an existing application with this capability.

Consider cost feasibility:

a.List sources of the major development costs for alternative A.

b.List sources of the major operational costs for alternative A.

c.List sources of the major development costs for alternative B.

d.List sources of the major operational costs for alternative B.

e.Which alternative is likely to be cheaper to develop?

f.List and describe factors that may make alternative A cheaper to operate.

g.List and describe factors that may make alternative B cheaper to operate.

Please answer only about cost feasibility. I already know the other answers to the questions, I am struggling with this one about cost feasibility.