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„why create a powerful CPU for a low-end database? Big Blue still has not responded to our inquiry...“

Bahaha, savage :)

Bahaha, savage :)

Is it really "savage?"

The article was posted long after business hours at IBM. You posted your comment long before business hours at IBM.

It might amaze certain types of people to believe that IBM doesn't have a fleet of PR people sitting around at midnight the week before Christmas to respond to rando online articles.

It's entirely possible that El Reg submitted its query to IBM a week ago and waited for a response that never arrived. But considering the state of internet "journalism" these days, usually they send a Twitter DM and if they don't get a response in the time it takes to finish a Starbucks, they consider it unanswered.

I believe the comment you’re responding to was saying that the dig at Oracle[1] was savage, not IBM’s lack of response.

[1] “why create a powerful CPU for a low-end database?”

I believe "low-end database" wasn't a knock at Oracle either. The pricing advantage you get with multiple cores for a single socket applies to standard edition which is their low-end database product. I have never seen it used in production.

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