I have just finished with IBM Australia on a project for USA - The project is a conversion of a current CD based package for students to a online delivered solution to approx 3 million users with approx 1.5 million concurrent users. Currently the client is considering a DOT Net front end with a MS SQL backend - the backend after speaking to IBM today require 28 processors licences of SQL at 40k per processor (Why MS SQL at this level is another serious question -re licensing fees) with approx 82 plus copies of Win 2003 Enterprise licence ... currently we are unsure of the number of web servers .. IBM are suggesting 3 Blade Servers each holding 14 blades After considering the costs of the front end (web servers) just the windows licensing costs are huge this naturally brings up the OS costs and then leads onto the development platform Coldfusion has been suggested during the discussion of DOT Net and open source solutions like PHP however the Coldfusion licence and Linux costs exceed a Windows licence cost and a DOT Net solution (a tool is in the process of being written to dynamically convert the CD to a DOT Net solution so we cant use the development time as a point)
In looking at this a bit closer the question may be Can a blade server use 1 Coldfusion enterprise licence? OR each blade within the Blade server be treated as a separate server requiring a enterprise licence? OR is there a major discount for 52 copies of Coldfusion enterprise? Any suggestions would be great as currently the feeling is PHP is the way to go Cheers Rob Wilson --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
