HP Itanium server users – Stuck with Oracle price increases?

Submitted by admin on February 16, 2011  |  1,476 views

Oracle Price Hike for HP Itanium Customers

Oracle’s New Prices:

“Well before Oracle was even close to buying Sun Microsystems, the company was kind enough to tweak its per-core pricing for its eponymous database software to make it competitive on processors with fewer threads and higher clock speeds. Now, the company is making its software pricing less attractive on servers using Itanium 9300 processors from Intel – which pretty much come from only Hewlett-Packard these days.

On December 1, Oracle jacked up software prices on customers buying new machines based on Intel’s quad-core Itanium 9300 processors… the scaling factor on Itanium 9300 machines starting December 1 is 1.0, not the 0.5 that was in effect prior to that time for all Itanium chips..”

(Source: Oracle slashes software prices on own iron: Hikes ‘em on HP Itanium)

IBM Response:

Customers can lower their software license and maintenance costs by moving applications off Oracle Database and onto IBM DB2. Often such migrations also result in performance improvements, storage benefits, and easier administration. Independent industry analysts like Gartner and Forrester agree that such migrations are now a viable option.

(Source: HP Itanium Customers can save money by switching to DB2)

The Smarter Question

What is the most cost effective way to migrate your database environment?

  • http://bit.ly/gBwyfS Dwaine Snow

    The world of database migrations has undergone a paradigm shift with DB2 9.7 which can run Oracle PL/SQL and Sybase T-SQL with little to no change since DB2 9.7 includes a “compatibility layer”. DB2 9.7 also drastically lowers the cost of migration, and allows you to migrate in days or weeks rather than months. Please visit my blog to read more about cost-effective ways to move off Oracle: http://bit.ly/gBwyfS

  • http://db2news.wordpress.com Conor O'Mahony

    I think that Noel Yuhanna sums up the answer to this question best in his blog post titled Database Migrations Are Finally Becoming Simpler where he talks about these new "database compatibility layers".

    Another good resource on this topic is the IBM Data Management magazine Q4 2010 issue cover story titled Migrate from Oracle or Sybase to DB2 in Weeks.

  • Sid Misra

    The DB2 database migration technology is a game changer not only because it reduces the time and cost of the actual migration but also because it reduces training and development costs. Since DB2 has native support for commonly used Oracle PL/SQL syntax, applications built to run on Oracle database require few or no code changes to run on DB2. What this in turn means is that companies can continue to use their PL/SQL skills after migration. Check out the DB2 SQL compatibility demo – https://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/iwm/web/sig…

    Also, see a very funny animated video on the tale of two villagers who want to break free from the Town of Orrible and flee to the wonderful town of DB2 – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sPtLOG3Yxc

  • http://freedb2.com/2011/03/23/oracle-not-so-subtle-hint-to-hp-customers/ Oracle not so subtle hint to HP customers | CloudDB2 + FreeDB2

    [...] with Mark Hurd being kicked out of HP and picked up by Larry Elison. In December of last year Oracle doubled their “scaling factor” for Itanium 9300 in effect making Oracle software twice the price on this processor architecture. While the price [...]

  • http://twitter.com/katsnelson Leon Katsnelson

    Oracle just announced that it is discontinuing support for Itanium all together. This likely has little to do with Itanium and a lot to do with Oracle’s battle with HP. http://freedb2.com/2011/03/23/oracle-not-so-subtle-hint-to-hp-customers/

  • Hallma

    Interesting discussion. IBM is hosting a webcast on this issue to give the IBM view. The webcast is entitled: Considerations for HP Itanium Users : Why You Should Act Now. The program will be on May 12th at 1:00 pm PST. Register at: http://bit.ly/fiHJtA

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    If you are forced to change server platform, and then consider the HP Itanium servers. Since DB2 common Oracle PL / SQL syntax native support, built-in Oracle database running on the application requires little or no code changes to run on DB2.

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