Oracle pricing eclipses Sun users

http://www.vnunet.com/News/1117113

More pricing fodder for discussion. Some interesting quotes; "It's the nature of capacity-based pricing. Doubling processor speed means doubling the price of Oracle licences, but doesn't mean twice the performance," he explained.

Their big example was that Sun's top line server (E10000) runs half as fast as the IBM top line server (p680), but costs twice as much to run Oracle on
(due to the UPU ratings). Hmmm.

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