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To wit: for the UltraSparc T1, you multiply the total amount of cores (eight) times .25 to arrive at 2, and that's how many processor licenses you'll need. At $40,000 per Oracle processor license, that's $80,000 for the UltraSparc T1.
The factor is .50 for AMD/Intel chips, .75 for other multicore servers, and 1 for single-core servers (which represents no change).
This isn't a big surprise; it's a big "about time." Pressure has been building in the wake of the October 2004 announcement that Microsoft would charge per-socket for multiple cores, treating them as individual processors, no matter how many cores are carved into a chip.
To wit: for the UltraSparc T1, you multiply the total amount of cores (eight) times .25 to arrive at 2, and that's how many processor licenses you'll need. At $40,000 per Oracle processor license, that's $80,000 for the UltraSparc T1.
The factor is .50 for AMD/Intel chips, .75 for other multicore servers, and 1 for single-core servers (which represents no change).
This isn't a big surprise; it's a big "about time." Pressure has been building in the wake of the October 2004 announcement that Microsoft would charge per-socket for multiple cores, treating them as individual processors, no matter how many cores are carved into a chip.
