[dba-SQLServer] Outlandish Pricing?

Jim Moss jim.moss at jlmoss.net
Mon Feb 12 09:30:17 CST 2007


My major client has a NAS solution that is pretty reasonable:


http://www.newisys.com/core/na1400.html


> Well then maybe you fall into this niche category
>
> Business Objects aims for midmarket
> Launches new unit, product line for firms with less than $1B in revenue
>
> http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=analytics&articleId=9010280&taxonomyId=161&intsrc=kc_top
>
>
> artful at rogers.com wrote:
>
>>This snip (from
>> http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=116900&WT.svl=news1_3)
>>
>>Philipines-based wireless service Smart Communications has deployed the
>> appliance to trawl data on its 22 million subscribers and run checks on
>> fraud and billing information. (See Smart Signs Greenplum.) Pricing for
>> Sun's Data Warehouse Appliance starts at around $22,000 per Tbyte for a
>> 20-Tbyte configuration.
>>
>>I am working via a colleague with a small client who has 62M rows in one
>> table in his database. Copy it once and he is past the 1TB boundary.
>> According to the above, you cannot buy this in chunks smaller than 20TB,
>> which translates to $440,000 per installation. Just what Mom 'n' Pop
>> needs!
>>
>>Arthur Fuller
>>Technical Writer, Data Modeler, SQL Sensei
>>www.artfulsoftware.com
>>
>>
>>
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