Re: Microsoft .NET frontending IBM i

[Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen <ravn@xxxxxxxxxx>]

 Den 12/10/10 15.36, Nathan Andelin skrev:
> > From: Thorbjørn Ravn Andersen
> > For a database, IBM sells DB2 for Linux, which can be clustered and
> > everything - apparently even at a competitive price ... but I cannot
> > locate the pricing ...
>
> To locate the pricing of DB2 for Linux, all you needed to do was click the link
> for the "Edition" you were looking for.  The "Express" edition is $5,425 for 100
Pity, I gave up too early.  Thanks for doing the final click.

> PVUs (1 core).  The new IBM x3650 (4-core XEON) is priced at $3,425.  So if you
> needed a 4-core server with a database operating on every core, it would be
> slightly less expensive for an IBM i model 720.  The database accounts for most
> of the cost under both scenarios.
Frankly I thought DB2 would be cheaper than that in the Express 
edition.  Oh well.