A commercial customer will soon send out a Request For Pricing (RFP) for a new large database server. Why would a pSeries technical specialist try to influence the customer to base the requirements on performance (TPC-C, Ideas International Relativity, Oracle Applications Standard Benchmark, etc.) rather than on numbers of processors?()
A.
IBM processor performance does not scale well over 16 ways.
B.
Competitors do not pay for TPC-C certification so results are not available.
C.
IBM servers consistently outperform some other servers on a "per CPU" basis.
D.
IBM prices are lower than competition when like numbers of processors are proposed.