Yep, that is how it works. We are trying to justify a z/890 with IFL,
just on consolidation of serveral Oracle servers on Wintel to z/Linux
under z/VM.
The number all look good. Quite a bit of cost savings that will pay for
it, but we need money upfront. The cost savings are later.
Well, Friday is the start of the new FY. Will be interesting.
Tom Duerbusch
THD Consulting
They
> say that Oracle is licensed by the number of processors in the box. And
> that a license for z/OS on two processors (regardless of which processor
> it is - z800, z890, z990, all the same cost) costs the same as a license
> for Windows running on two processors. This seems silly to me, but I
> cannot refute it.
McKown, John wrote:
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Pieter Harder
Sent: Thursday, June 30, 2005 8:18 AM
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Subject: Re: Business Week Article
Run Oracle on the z/890 as a "super server",
(We just eliminated z/VM and Linux on the zSeries because nobody
knew what to do with them
John,
Just curious, on what are they planning to run Oracle then?
zOS? You guys mus have gobs of money....
Best regards,
Pieter Harder
We don't have "gobs of money". That scenario is what is being touted by
certain managers. Personally, I don't buy it, but what do I know? They
say that Oracle is licensed by the number of processors in the box. And
that a license for z/OS on two processors (regardless of which processor
it is - z800, z890, z990, all the same cost) costs the same as a license
for Windows running on two processors. This seems silly to me, but I
cannot refute it.
Also, at one time, we did test Oracle on Linux under z/VM (back when we
had those products). The Oracle DBAs (who ran the test themselves) came
to the conclusion that a z800 single IFL and 1 Gb of memory did not
perform as well as a 10Gb Sun system with 10 processors. Well, duh!
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