Hi Crispin
I was just thinking back to the Power 6 announcements I went to where they
talked about (my summarization here) basically buying p iron and then adding
the partitions either or i or p flavour that you needed. To make that work
you need to have a cost for an i partition that's not system or hardware
related.
I don't have any documentation to support this but in our future I see i
being positioned much more as an OS/database combo running on some iron
rather than a complete box (this has been coming for a long time). A logical
outcome of this might be licensing by the core so it is priced using the
same mechanism as the other DB's.
Personally (and I find this ironic given other threads about the system i
database compared to real DBMS's) I think that making it more like the other
DB's is what will ultimately do it in.
If you wanted to run multiple i partitions on a p, how would you do it. In
the past you couldn't, but ....
Food for thought :)
Regards
Evan Harris
-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Crispin Bates
Sent: Saturday, 26 July 2008 12:49 a.m.
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
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Evan,
Any chance you have some literature supporting that? A link perhaps. Is it
Power 6, or i 6.1 in this context?
Either way, it would be a killer if the benefits of partitioning are FAR
outweighed by the additional costs.
Thinking aobut it, I can't see how that would work. This surely can't be
true.
You've scared me... :)
Crispin.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Evan Harris" <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: "'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'" <web400@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 10:18 PM
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Zend Platform Pricing
Actually, now I think about it - this may no longer be true. The licensing
on power 6 might be different.
-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
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Sent: Friday, 25 July 2008 10:05 a.m.
To: 'Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries'
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Zend Platform Pricing
You only need one OS license for the box - it covers all partitions.
midrange.com
