Why does TPC-D require a test sponsor to disclose system pricing in such detail?
Increasingly we were seeing ‘package specials’ where nearly the entire configuration was covered under one price. This obscured information which customers found useful. Customers of the benchmarks wanted to understand price performance at a finer level, i.e., dollars per GB of disk, etc. While we do not prohibit package pricing, we do require that the vendor disclose finer granularity pricing so that the benchmark consumer knows what an additional processor, or disk, or tape drive costs.
