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IBM must have felt that there is a market, and one that would be able to justify the upgrade. Some spreadsheet must have the number that says "This is how how m
by mrweasel 4y ago
IBM must have felt that there is a market, and one that would be able to justify the upgrade. Some spreadsheet must have the number that says "This is how how many core at this price point, where this product makes more sense than dealing with Oracles licensing".
The article does conclude with this interesting observation:
Be aware that the SE2 license does not offer access to all Oracle database features.
Oracle's EE license offers access to more, and more powerful, features.
Which makes IBM's statement of general direction a little odd:
why create a powerful CPU for a low-end database?
Big Blue still has not responded to our inquiry...