Re: T3 processor/system & Oracle License

  • From: LS Cheng <exriscer@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Paul Drake <bdbafh@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 17:57:59 +0200

Yes of course that is an option, in fact he is looking for the MOST powerful
dual core existing in the market!

But imagine in a couple of years time when you can only choose minimum 8
core servers?


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LSC



On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Paul Drake <bdbafh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> LSC,
>
> So why not simply downgrade to a dual socketed, quad core server?
> The new server will still have 3 memory controller channels per socket as
> opposed to a single memory controller on the mainboard.
> Perhaps I'm too used to where the lines of the electric fence are and
> simply stay far enough away to not get zapped.
>
> Paul
>
>
> <removed most of the thread so as to not get nailed for overquoting>
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 1, 2010 at 11:36 AM, LS Cheng <exriscer@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> I have a customer who's got 200 users (NAMED USERS) licensed, to simplify
>> he has a 4 dual core server so that becomes 8 cores, when dealing with named
>> user license model you must pay 25 suer per core so even he has less users
>> he has to pay for 200.
>>
>> He needs to upgrade the server now, 4 core intel 55xx CPU so the hardware
>> vendor, Dell is trying to sell a server with 4 CPU again, but now he will
>> have 16 cores after hardware upgrade. Oracle tells him that now he needs now
>> 400 users licensed.
>>
>> So he says what the heck, the number of users is not gonna change just
>> because the CPU has now more cores I am forced to buy more license? In this
>> case he is not annoyed about the cores, the annoying point is Oracle forces
>> him to buy 25 users per core even has has around 150 users.
>>
>> So more cores mean more money no matter if you license with CPU or named
>> users. What if in a couple of years all CPU are 16 or even 32 cores, so he
>> has to move from 200 users to 800?
>>
>>
>> --
>> LSC
>>
>>
>>
>

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