Re: 20 questions

1: Probably but until a day ago Matt B was predicting with almighty authority that all Hardware was for sale to HP. Are you as good at telling the future as he is?

2: Thats pure speculation considering no official specs have even been provided. Go look at Superdome : 24k max, 19k typical consumption. IBM P595 max is 27k as well. So assuming even an element of truth in those figures the Rock platform looks reasonable unless I missed something?

3: Utter bollox, we've been doing tons of migrations of Sparc iii, iv and iv+. No such issue though you can only take my word for it. Don' think my employer would let people in for a nosey around.

4: Every DB is the same? All perform badly? Lets wait and see what Oracle produce on the 14th and see if it really does have tons of SSD or cache bolted in. Even if it does have it that can be perfectly valid if a customer can replicate it in-house and make something fly in-house.

What do you reckon happened when people first started using caching Raid arrays? Did they say "Invalid, it's cheating using new technology, an unrealistic system spec......"

The 10/11g RAC technology isn't exactly new and I bet pricing per core changes pretty soon.

5: Having never quoted for Superdomes vs P595's vs M-series & factored in support, software and purchase cost I can't comment. I doubt you have either so smells like fud.

6: E2900's have to go to M-series? Yeah, right, seen a vendor promote that recently for their product but T5240's were easily as comparable. Core speed is different, yes but it copes with the IO a lot better which more than compensates for it. SSL offloading has to ease CPU as well which probably accounts for a fair few CPU cycles on other CPU's.

Anyway, I give up, can't be arsed to write through every other item though point 9 is laughable, 11 has an element of truth, 14 could be said of many places (IBM offshored Mainframe support, reckon that went well?, Spoke to an offshored guy for MSA arrays and I think he'd just learned how to spell MSA).

Hey ho, thats the way the world spins, spit FUD FUD & FUD again and a few will start to believe it.

It's a valid sales technique I suppose.