Re: Microsoft destroys TPC-C records!

From: Casper H.S. Dik - Network Security Engineer <Casper.Dik_at_Holland.Sun.Com>
Date: 2000/03/02
Message-ID: <89mn1i$ki$1@new-usenet.uk.sun.com>#1/1

[[ PLEASE DON'T SEND ME EMAIL COPIES OF POSTINGS ]] Tony Toews <ttoews_at_telusplanet.net> writes:

>> And of course, that means the customer has purchased *twelve*
>>licenses for Win 2000 Advanced Server, not to mention the associated
>>*client* licenses, and will have to maintain twelve servers.

>Following the URL to the Executive Summary shows that that price includes 8 licenses
>(I think Casper got 12 systems when it should've been 8. Actually there were 8
>systems each with 12 CPUs.) for SQL Server Enterprise at $29K each and Windows 2000
>Advanced Server at $4K each. Under client software is 24 license for Windows 2000
>Server at $809 which doesn't make any sense to me.

There are two results: one is a 8x8 Cluster (152k) and the other is a 12x8(227K) cluster. The executive summary lists 12 licenses and 12 systems for the 227K result.

Casper

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Received on Thu Mar 02 2000 - 00:00:00 CST