From: JimHutchison@attcanada.com (Jim Hutchison) Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Solaris versus AIX: pricing question Organization: AT&T Canada Reply-To: jimhutchison@attcanada.com Message-ID: <3acb794c.591247565@24.64.2.57> References: <3acb5c03.583749068@24.64.2.57> X-Newsreader: Forte Free Agent 1.11/32.235 Lines: 28 Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 19:59:00 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.79.19.57 X-Complaints-To: abuse@home.net X-Trace: news1.rdc1.ab.home.com 986414340 24.79.19.57 (Wed, 04 Apr 2001 12:59:00 PDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2001 12:59:00 PDT Appreciate your response... On 04 Apr 2001 19:46:16 +0100 (BST), Andrew Mobbs wrote: >Jim Hutchison wrote: >>I've heard Oracle's licensing model makes it cheaper to run on AIX as >>opposed to Solaris, due to the horsepower of the RS6k chip. >> >>I'm interested in researching this more, so I'm starting here... any >>experience/opinions? > >Oracle translates MHz into Power Units, which determine the price: see >http://store.oracle.com/cec/cstage?eccookie=&template=help_licensing.en.htm >for details. > >If nothing else matters to you other than minimizing the Oracle >licencing cost, you should look at www.spec.org at the >specInt 2000 "CINT2000 Rates" and pick the system with the best >specintrate/MHz. > >Of course, other things will matter, but it'll give you an idea of >this factor. > >-- >Andrew Mobbs - http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~andrewm/