Oops... Hit the send by mistake.... I'll try this again... See below...
Yeah, it pretty much removes any argument for the US IV, in my mind. I'm a little peeved that Sun is muddying the waters by claiming that each UltraSparc IV is a "processor" - the amusing side effect is their marketing capital does linguistic backflips with terms like "Chip MultiThreading - CMT". The goal is to encourage people to see the chips as a single processor, and not see the need to doubly license per-cpu software, which I find disingenuous.
Actually, there is one interesting case where the US IV is attractive... The problem lies with moving through the Sun product lineup and needing more then 12 CPU's on your DB server... Here is a product summary using list prices from the Sun website...
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