Re: Informix business grew by double digits in 2006 (Q1+Q2)

Not sure about 80% comment, but I can't think of any of our customers
that don't run dedicated data servers

Cheers
Paul


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From: Christine Normile [mailto:christine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Posted At: 05 August 2006 13:39
Posted To: comp.databases.informix
Conversation: Informix business grew by double digits in 2006 (Q1+Q2)
Subject: Re: Informix business grew by double digits in 2006 (Q1+Q2)


I do not see PVU pricing as a Godsend for IDS. Unfortunately, PVU
pricing only benefits the product if companies run a dedicated database
server either on a stand-alone box or as a partition within a server.
Running a standalone server is not practical for >80% of dataserver
needs due to the capacity of machines today, especially vis-a-vis IDS's
very elegant design. Running as a partition places severe limits on the
platforms that can be used...to qualify for sub-capacity pricing
(required for partitioned systems), a customer must also install IBM
Tivoli license manager (ITLM) and provide periodic reports to ensure
compliance.

The ITLM requirement restricts subcapacity pricing to IBM's supported
platform list which is much narrower than IDS's supported platform list.

Christine Normile

On Aug 5, 2006, at 7:23 AM, Neil Truby wrote:


Eric Herber" <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:eb1oku$rk8$1@xxxxxxxxxxxx


Even worser for DB2 will be be the PVU (Processor Value
Unit)
pricing coming from IBM. Reality shows that IDS based on
the elegant multithreading technology consumes less
hardware
resources than a comparable DB2 installation. So
customers
will save a lot of money in terms of hardware and
software
pricing (PVU) if they favor IDS instead of DB2.


Expect IBM to hammer home this point.


Performing
reality based benchmarks is the best strategy to proof
this
and customers should invest the time to do this before
making
a database decision.


Only the largest companies have the resources to do this, even
assuming the
vendor will let them have the relevant software. This is why
vendors time
and effort in benchmarks. Excpet for Informix of course.


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