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

David Froble davef at tsoft-inc.com
Sat Sep 24 19:18:45 EDT 2016


Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> 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.

It seems that HP never followed suit for Alpha when they set itanic prices.

I am not real sure, and it's been a while, but the last thing I remembered for 
itanic was maybe $5000/system for VMS cluster.

So, why so high for Alpha, and less for itanic?  Real simple, HP was selling 
itanics, and anything to get someone with an Alpha to buy one was their goal.

Is kind of tough on someone who cannot easily get off Alpha, but, what does HP 
care, they sell an itanic, or they don't sell an itanic.  That's all they care 
about.

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

Maybe only for those who cannot get off Oracle ....

> 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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