[Info-vax] Updated HPE/VSI OpenVMS V8.4-2L1 Marketing Brochures

[Stephen Hoffman]

On 2016-09-24 16:17:22 +0000, Kerry Main said:

> Those seem like decades old pricing for OpenVMS clustering based on the 
> old per core scheme, (not the socket based with I2/I4), but let's put 
> things in perspective:

I was quoted those prices about a year ago, working on an Alpha 
configuration the customer couldn't upgrade.  Watched several eyebrows 
take tours of foreheads in that meeting, too.

> Now you can see why the OpenVMS X86-64 PCF is such a big licensing 
> factor in the Oracle World

I don't doubt it's a factor, particularly for folks tied to those databases.

It's also why an increasing number of folks are using Centos and other 
platforms, and using PostgreSQL and SQLite and other tools.

Unlike OpenVMS, Oracle does have a low-end offering with their MySQL 
acquisition, though more than a few folks are choosing MariaDB, 
PostgreSQL, SQLite or such...


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