On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Ted MacNEIL <eamacn...@yahoo.ca> wrote: >>I may be wrong, but I thought Oracle was still a per processor license, even >>under z/Linux. A dozen Oracles on a zprocessor is cheaper > than the same on dedicated Intel boxen. > > Yes, you are correct. > But, aside from being accurate, what does this have to do with SAS licensing, > under z/LINUX, which doesn't exist, yet. > > My point was, ORACLE is not cheaper just because it runs under z/LINUX. > It is still priced the same -- on a per CPU basis, which has nothing to do > with the OS it runs under.
You're assuming that you can only run ONE copy of Linux on a CPU. Since you can run more than one, the net is that it's a lot cheaper to use Oracle on Linux on z than on the same horsepower of, say, Intel boxes. More than one site has justified Linux on z on this basis alone. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
