AS I mentioned in my last blog question no 4.
What is cost advantage & TCO advantage of OpenSource ?
GlassFish application server is Free of Cost for Production Deployments. With very little cost for support, GlassFish application server will bring down Total cost of ownership.
Today there are few announcements from sun which proves the point.
Today Sun Microsystems Releases New GlassFish and MySQL Offering To Provide Customers With Unlimited Deployments of Enterprise Class Application Server and Database Software.
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Whats the cost advantage and total cost of ownership compared to proprietary pricing ?
For a typical customer with under 1,000 employees running application servers on 20 dual-CPU, dual-core x86 servers and running database servers on 10 dual-CPU, dual-core x86 servers, the three year total cost of ownership (TCO) for proprietary software will exceed $3 million USD. The three year TCO for Glassfish and MySQL Unlimited for this same configuration is just $240,000 USD - a savings of over $2.76 million USD. For details on the comparison see http://www.sun.com/mysql/glassfish
What do customers get ?
Unlimited server deployments of GlassFish Enterprise Server and MySQL Enterprise
Reliable, extensible, record-setting application server
The world's most popular open source database—the defacto standard for massive scale in the network economy
90% lower total cost of ownership than traditional database and application server solutions, same enterprise-class support
Global mission-critical support & services from 1000s of trained field services personnel
No counting sockets or cores
No counting support incidents
No counting servers
No auditing or true-ups
How do I calculate the TCO for MySQL VS proprietary vendors?
TCO for MySQL can be calculated. Customers can customize there calculations per there need. Please click on the Image to perform your TCO calculation
With this significant announcement any decision maker of a IT organizations cannot ignore this cost savings and Hassle free Licensing.
