W dniu 2013-03-13 08:11, Timothy Sipples pisze:
I don't speak for either Oracle or for IBM in an official capacity, but
I'll take an educated guess: history.
[...]
("Servers" and "processors" were the same thing for many years
[...]
Good explanation, but there are minor inconsistencies.
1. There were different prices for different CPU families (one price for
Intel aka PC server, another for RISC machines).
2. There are other pricing methods like per user, per terabyte, but such
methods are not always applicable for given software products.
3. Terms and conditions are a changing. There is nothing magic which
refrain Oracle (or other company) from changing their rules. Some
long-term contracts maybe, but not new ones. BTW: many moons ago Oracle
did the trick and many customers lost their discounts for upgrade fees
(a product costs X, upgrade cost fraction of X) - due to repackage the
features.
IMHO the answer for Oracle is: Because they WANT to keep the pricing
model as it is. And we don't know how long the will.
QAnswer for other vendors is: IT DEPENDS. There are pricing models, i.e
"per server" where mainframe is significantly more expensive than PC
server. And its not necessarily tied to mainframe capacity.
Mu €0.02
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