I don't speak for either Oracle or for IBM in an official capacity, but
I'll take an educated guess: history. Most of Oracle's corporate history
and technical practice involved customers deploying its software to
discrete servers as individual workloads: one or maybe a pair of servers
per
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.
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(Servers and processors were the same thing for many years
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Good explanation, but there are minor inconsistencies.
1.
We're not disagreeing.
I forgot to mention machine-specific versus transferable licensing
(thinking of Microsoft), licensing which can be support-entitled versus not
(ditto), site licensing, and enterprise licensing.
The software vendor gets to decide its licensing metrics and pricing terms
in
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)
