On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 10:33 AM, R.S. <[email protected]> wrote: > I understand pricing (dis)advantages, which causes that it is cheaper to use > SAS on Intel than on z/OS, or run several "Linux+Oracle" images on IFL than > on several Intel machines. > However I'm curious - WHY ??? > Why does SAS Institute allow for "cannibal" competition? Is it good for them > to lose z/OS customer just to get new "Windows" license? > Are they interested in shrinking z/OS market? > > From the other hand - why Oracle licenses its database "per core"? Don't > they see IFL is much stronger than Core2Duo? Didn't they see that comparable > cpu power machines from HP and IBM differed significantly in number of CPUs? > Are they interested in favourizing some platforms? > If not, then why the license model does not distinguish CPU models?
I don't know for sure, but my suspicion is that DB2 is the target. And on z, DB2 rules. In fact, I've heard (anecdotally) that Oracle is abandoning z/OS because the z/OS customers have abandoned Oracle. No idea how true this is. But if true, then they were smart enough to say "Since z folks aren't going to put their databases on toy hardware, we need to be on z, period." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
