Ted MacNEIL wrote:
I heard! You heard! She heard!
[snip]
Of course, you know that 80% of all statistics are made up on the spot?
I heard it was closer to 90%. :-)
(8-{>}
But, the 230,000 Oracle licences tell a story all by themselves.
Not as compelling a story as might appear at first blush. A
non-mainframe server farm is guaranteed to require many copies of the
data base.Oracle is a popular one. Meanwhile, one CEC-based software
license can handle all LPARs on a large mainframe.
Raw license counts are a much less important measure than how much data
is stored and how many end users are accessing that data.
We do lots of work on our mainframe and we have about 50 times as many
licenses for Windows as we do for z/OS. For big shops, I'm sure the
ratio is much higher: hundreds or even thousands to one. What does that
mean?
--
Edward E Jaffe
Phoenix Software International, Inc
5200 W Century Blvd, Suite 800
Los Angeles, CA 90045
310-338-0400 x318
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http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/
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