Re: Page Size....
A light-hearted exchange under the Page Size thread. Christine Normile joked the acquisition was a plot by the AIX team to push customers to DB2 and bigger hardware. Double Echo said IBM staff told him hardware sales of VM-partitioned Power systems undercut per-CPU software pricing, and wondered whether Power stays relevant against x86. scottishpoet recalled Sun refusing to help in a competitive bid. No technical question.
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Does that mean that the acquisition was really an evil plot by the pSeries (AIX) team to drive Informix customers to DB2 and bigger hardware? On Nov 17, 2006, at 10:36 AM, scottishpoet wrote: > "they noticed a 25% reduction in CPU usage which means > they can live on that server host for longer through DB growth before > having > to spend $$ on a bigger faster system" > > And there in lies the reason hardware manaufacturers hate informix > > _______________________________________________ > Informix-list mailing list > Informix-list@iiug.org > http://www.iiug.org/mailman/listinfo/informix-list
well it would go a long way to explaining ongoing hidden agenda IBM has
scottishpoet wrote: > well it would go a long way to explaining ongoing hidden agenda IBM has > It's actually more true that you would imagine. I was told by more than one person from IBM that the software people have to constantly deal with not only Informix but DB2 pricing-by-the-CPU and having the hardware people muck up their deals. DB2/Informix are sold by the CPU, thus the more the merrier, till they have the hardware people come in and chat about using 1/10 of a CPU for a VM. So the hardware people totally sink the nice big juicy CPU-based software sale by touting the need for fewer CPUs. What I'm really curious about is how many Power[5-6-7-...] systems are really being sold, and being sold with AIX as opposed to Linux. Power is supposed to be the ultimate VM environment but I have heard hardly anything over the past year about how great it is. Instead you hear a lot about XEN, VMware, and other virtual machines on Linux. Even Opteron is still the hot topic, and x86 Quad Core ( http://news.com.com/2100-1006_3-6038148.html http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1826663,00.asp ). So the question is Power even going to be relevant with cheaper x86 on the horizon. 2007 is going to get interesting with the big push into better VM's.
it was said in jest but i have been in competitive sales situations where Sun all but refused to work with me because they could sell loads more tin if they supported an Oracle bid!