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IBM Doubles Rewards For Ditching Sun
Taking advantage of the uncertainty surrounding Oracle's acquisition of Sun, IBM has doubled the monetary incentives they are offering to ditch Sun gear. Offering $8,000 in software or services for every Sun Sparc processor ditched for an IBM Power server, the program seems to be paying off. IBM has helped 1,640 customers migrate from other manufacturers' hardware over the last year. "The program applies to Sparc-based Sun hardware, such as the Sparc, UltraSparc, and Sparc 64 servers, and also to Fujitsu systems that run on Sparc chips. A customer that moves off a Sparc-powered system running, say, eight processors would be eligible for up to $64,000 worth of rewards."
Does this mean every one of those customers ditched Oracle in the process, or is there an IBM POWER version of Oracle?
I don't see one on Oracle's standard downloads page.
It would be anticompetitive if IBM had a monopoly... but they don't. Dumping in this sense is entirely legal and is, in fact, commonplace....
Upgrade from XXX competitor and we'll drop our price by 10%!
I have no problem with your religion until you decide it's reason to deprive others of the truth.