"Oracle's [multi-core] pricing ...simple and flexible"

The way I figured it was wrong....

"Now, while executives say that a new policy will account for each
processor on multicore chips as a fraction -- 0.75 -- of a processor,
there is a hitch.

"The new pricing will round up to the nearest whole number when the
total number of processors housed on multicore chips totals between
integers. Thus, a license for a two-core processor would charge for
0.75 x 2, which is 1.5 processors. In this instance, the enterprise's
license would charge for the next highest integer, which is 2."

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From: Paul Baumgartel <paul.baumgartel@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Jul 15, 2005 2:09 PM
Subject: Re: "Oracle's [multi-core] pricing ...simple and flexible"
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx


The way I figured it (based on 64-bit dual-core Opteron, which is
supposed to give 50% better performance than single-core), the license
cost is now commensurate with performance.

1 dual-core CPU = 1.5 CPU performance

1 dual-core CPU = 1.5 CPU license cost (2 x .75 CPU)


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On 7/15/05, William B Ferguson <wbfergus@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hmmm. Using the example below then, 12 cores equals the same 'processor'
> license as 11 cores?
>
> It's probably another set of licensing, but does this mean if we went with a
> 12 machine RAC, we'd only get counted as having 9 'cores', or would we
> actually then get counted for 12 'processors'?
>
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