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The first thing to consider when thinking about DB2® for your business:
it’s as low as 1/3 the cost of Oracle Database. Then consider DB2 on
Power Systems™ with 3x the performance per core of Oracle Database
on SPARC, in TPC-C and SAP SD benchmarks. Overall, an ironclad case
for IBM. There’s more where that came from, too.
COS T based on publicly avail U.S. info on 2/10/2011 for IBM DB2 Advanced Enterprise Edition + Oracle software w/comparable capabilities. IBM: 100 Processor Value Units. Oracle: assumes 1.0 processor multiplier. Both incl.
Y1 maint/support. PERFORMANCE: www.tpc.org as of 01/26/11 [IBM Power 780 ( 3 x 64 C)( 24 Ch/192 C/768 Th); 10,366,254 tpmC; $1.38/tpmC; avail 10/13/10 v. Oracle SPARC SuperCluster w/ T3-4 Servers ( 27 x 64 C)(108
Ch/1728 C/13824 Th); 30,249,688 tpmC; $1.01/tpmC; avail 6/1/11]. TPC-C is a trademark of Transaction Performance Processing Council. www.sap.com/solutions/benchmark/ as of 01/26/11 [IBM Power 795 ( 32 P/256 C/1024
Th); 126063 users/2-tier SAP ERP 6.0 pack4/AIX 7.1 + DB2 9. 7; cert 2010046 v. Oracle SPARC Enterprise Server M9000 (64 P/256 C/512 Th); 39100 users/2-tier SAP ERP 6.0/Solaris 10, Oracle 10g; cert 2008042]. SAP
is a registered trademark of SAP AG in Germany and several other countries. IBM, the IBM logo, ibm.com, DB2, Power Systems, Smarter Planet and the planet icon are trademarks of International Business Machines Corp.,
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