True question. What interest has Oracle and many other vendors in a pricing model that involve the number of procs used instead on cpu size? The regular pricing model used for mainframes for years is based on measures of the proc size in Mips/MSUs. The vendors are losing licenses (revenue) currently running on Intel or Unix proprietary procs to IBM's z/Linux initiative. IBM states that using IFLs, customers "Consolidate 3x or more* servers per core than virtualized x86 offerings". at same time, as IFL goes neer 100% utilization while other servers uses only about 20% of resources, I can understand why customers goes z/Linux. Oracle on z?Linux is Enterprise Edition, but yet, it is much cheaper if you have ten or so servers. so, why strong vendrs like Orcale agrees to this pricng model?
ITschak ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
