Incorrect. The per-core pricing on Intel/AMD is 50% It is 75% on all RISC variants except:
Power6 - 100% (e.g. 1 core = 1 CPU) Sun Sparc T1 Niagara below 1.4 GHz = 25% Sun Sparc T1 Niagara at 1.4 GHz = 50% The horrific thing is that Niagara II is at 75% (just like other RISC variants) but there are so many cores on a Niagara II that your licensing goes through the roof. I would disagree with claims that Sparc is dying. I can think of quite a number of examples even here in PH where Sun has made some huge deals selling M9000 into large enterprises. Of Sun's roughly $3B 2Q revenue, $1B was from M-class, $1B from services, $200M from X-series (AMD/Intel), $200M from Niagara. You could say that the HAL Sparc64 in the M-class is a lame processor, and it is! (compared to Power5/6). But it's about as lame as Itanium. And HP is still selling lots of Integrity Superdome. Same for Sun, still selling lots of M9000. I am really looking forward to the Rock processor: it's like Niagara II on steroids: pervasive on-chip multithreading, but the individual cores are much more powerful than the Niagara cores. And, Rock has hardware transaction/rollback. At ISSSC 2008 Sun demonstrated a hacked version of Sleepycat BerkeleyDB which uses the hardware transaction operands in Rock, and achieved a factor-of-5 concurrency improvement. On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 12:53 PM, thad <[email protected]> wrote: > Sparc is dying platform in midrange even in HP with its effort to > merge with Compaq and kill DEC Alpha. Most companies are migrating awy > from sparc either going to Power or Intel. Oracle pricing for Power is > very complex and convoluted to competitors like IBM, 75% per core for > Power5 and 100% per core for Power6. A midrange p550 8-way quadcore > will cost millions of dollar in license so one deployment on this > platform is enough for Larry to pay for another MIG ride :) On > intel/opteron Oracle charges 25% per core. -- Orlando Andico +63.2.976.8659 | +63.920.903.0335 _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
