From: Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen
Frankly I thought DB2 would be cheaper than that in the Express
edition. Oh well.
DB2 Express Edition is only $5,425/core. It could be worse. Quoting Timothy
Prickett Morgan:
"By comparison, Oracle charges $47,500 per core for its 11g Enterprise Edition
database plus $10,450 per core for support at list price. Microsoft charges
$27,495 per processor socket regardless of the number of cores in the Xeon or
Itanium processor for its SQL Server 2008 R2 Enterprise Edition database, plus
$6,874 per year for Software Assurance tech support. SQL Server Datacenter
Edition, which is a special highly scalable version of the database aimed at
data warehousing, costs twice that per socket."
http://www.itjungle.com/tfh/tfh101110-story01.html
Maybe it's all in the marketing. Programmers wouldn't approve. Or is there
hidden value in the architecture?
-Nathan
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