Re: The price of doing business with IBM?

On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 6:05 PM, Ian Michael Gumby <im_gumby@hotmail.com>wrote: > What Mark said and what is described in the document are two different > things. > No. What Mark said is explicit. And it's written in the Oracle price list. What you see in the TPC report is not false. It's misleading. Misleading because it doesn't mention "term licensing" and I think people will assume the standard "perpetual" license. It's misleading because it cuts the software acquisition (not maintenance) price in half. It's misleading because I don't think any real customer will buy it for a real system. But it's not false. They clearly say that it's two sockets * $2900. Since the price list is $5800, it's obviously the "term licensing" that as Mark wrote, and as it's written in the price list costs 50% for a three year term license. My point of this thread is that the numbers published by HP/Oracle didn't > jibe. As we can see, the numbers posted didn't make sense and are either > wrong or misleading. Even still, thanks to Mark's input, the more accurate > $11,000 is much less than the ~$70,000 for Informix. > Misleading yes. It looks good for benchmarks. And it would look much better if the software was the enterprise version.... Stay tuned :) -- Fernando Nunes Portugal http://informix-technology.blogspot.com My email works... but I don't check it frequently...