Re: 11.50.xC4 Compression with workgroup edition?
> Perhaps Serge can tell us if the Enterprise-only restriction applies to > DB2 also? (Channeling Serge) - Yes - and at $153 USD per PVU (not the $15,300 USD per PVU that Capt Pedantic reported) (Channeling me) The Captain's math is also a little dated For the older Intel cores, the individual PVU rating is 50. So 4 x Intel Quad Cores = 4x4x50*153 = $122,400 For the newer Nehalems however the individual PVU rating is 70. So 4 x Intel Quad Cores = 4x4x70*153 = $171,360 (BTW - the new Nehalems are very, very, very fast) (Channeling evil me) For those interested, Oracle's cost would be (on either set of chips) 4x4x.5*11,500 = $92,000 The IBM price does include one year of support, uplifting Oracle equivalently get you to $112,240
"Mark Townsend" <markbtownsend@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message news:4A15640E.5080901@sbcglobal.net... > >> Perhaps Serge can tell us if the Enterprise-only restriction applies to >> DB2 also? > > (Channeling Serge) - Yes - and at $153 USD per PVU (not the $15,300 USD > per PVU that Capt Pedantic reported) Yes, sorry, it's $15,300 per 100 PVUs: 100PVUs being 2 Intel cores or a Sparc core.
Captain Pedantic wrote: > "Mark Townsend" <markbtownsend@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message > news:4A15640E.5080901@sbcglobal.net... >> >>> Perhaps Serge can tell us if the Enterprise-only restriction applies >>> to DB2 also? >> >> (Channeling Serge) - Yes - and at $153 USD per PVU (not the $15,300 >> USD per PVU that Capt Pedantic reported) > > Yes, sorry, it's $15,300 per 100 PVUs: 100PVUs being 2 Intel cores or a > Sparc core. > 100PVUs being 2 of the OLDER Intel Cores. Newer Intel Cores are 70 PVUs each (for a total of 140 PVUs per dual core socket, or 280 PVUs per quad core socket). And yes, that does represent a 40% price increase Interesting enough, the new Power6 Cores went from 100 PVUs per core (200 PVUs per dual core socket), to 120 PVUs per core (240 PVUs per dual core sockets). So only a 20% price increase on the Power6s, which actually makes them a great deal vs the newer Intel kit (which is, BTW, IMHO, much faster) The newer SPARC cores are 50 PVUs each (or 30 for the T1's), however as they only start with quad core sockets, they are effectively 200 PVUs per socket (120 respectively)
70 PVUs now for the newer multi core Intel processors vs 50 PVUs for the older ones? Isn't it nice how they slid that one in? Again, they only time I heard about this was just now on this list. I just downloaded the PVU table and sure enough, on April 1st this went into effect - no joke. My gripe is with the lack of anouncement - again. On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Mark Townsend <markbtownsend@sbcglobal.net > wrote: > Captain Pedantic wrote: > > "Mark Townsend" <markbtownsend@sbcglobal.net> wrote in message > > news:4A15640E.5080901@sbcglobal.net... > >> > >>> Perhaps Serge can tell us if the Enterprise-only restriction applies > >>> to DB2 also? > >> > >> (Channeling Serge) - Yes - and at $153 USD per PVU (not the $15,300 > >> USD per PVU that Capt Pedantic reported) > > > > Yes, sorry, it's $15,300 per 100 PVUs: 100PVUs being 2 Intel cores or a > > Sparc core. > > > > 100PVUs being 2 of the OLDER Intel Cores. Newer Intel Cores are 70 PVUs > each (for a total of 140 PVUs per dual core socket, or 280 PVUs per quad > core socket). And yes, that does represent a 40% price increase > > Interesting enough, the new Power6 Cores went from 100 PVUs per core > (200 PVUs per dual core socket), to 120 PVUs per core (240 PVUs per dual > core sockets). So only a 20% price increase on the Power6s, which > actually makes them a great deal vs the newer Intel kit (which is, BTW, > IMHO, much faster) > > The newer SPARC cores are 50 PVUs each (or 30 for the T1's), however as > they only start with quad core sockets, they are effectively 200 PVUs > per socket (120 respectively) > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list >