Re: COMMON Update - misc - Database - Oracle

[Evan Harris <spanner@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi David

Sounds like a cool idea to me; it would certainly support IBM's 
positioning of the iSeries as a consolidation box especially if it 
didn't mean a database conversion; of course in a linux or aix 
partition this could be done right now, surely ?

It will be interesting to see if there is any effect on the hardware 
pricing of the iseries - could IBM seriously price i and p very 
differently to a customer wanting to run oracle on i ? How would they 
avoid this occurring in the market except by removing or reducing the 
price differential ? [am i just being naive]

What would be the effect on oracle pricing if you compared  how many 
power processors you need on i versus sparc or itanium on sun or 
intel gear ? My interpretation of the various performance bits and 
pieces i have seen suggests that you would need less processors to 
run the same number of transaction on i. getting an 8 way instead of 
a 16 way would have a significant impact on oracle pricing as I understand it.

We live in interesting times...

At 03:55 a.m. 21/09/2005, you wrote:
> Don wrote:
> > Oracle will be coming to i5.  Details to be determined shortly.
>
> Maybe this is a dumb question ... but: Why?
> --