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Re: informix market share

From: Serge Rielau <srielau_at_ca.ibm.com>
Date: Wed, 30 Nov 2005 11:52:32 -0500
Message-ID: <3v63mmF13t6lcU1@individual.net>


Mark Townsend wrote:
> Serge Rielau wrote:
>

>>
>> So, if said vendor would e.g. convert a customer's Sun SMP box into a 
>> cluster of Linux boxes. Would that be counted as new license revenue?
>>

>
> Only if there was a positive difference in the cost between the license
> on the Sun box and the new license on the cluster of Linux boxes.
*chuckle*And there always will be because SMP scales better than RAC (more CPUs needed) and RAC is cited as a major contributer to Linux licenses... it ain't free. To quote the Oracle ad's fineprint freely "DBMS software and switches not included ..." ;-)

All open to interpretation... always.
Cheers
Serge

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Serge Rielau
DB2 SQL Compiler Development
IBM Toronto Lab
Received on Wed Nov 30 2005 - 10:52:32 CST

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