Both those servers are T1 chipsets. I believe they came out 3 years ago or. The reason for the pricing, from my research, was that there weren't many multi-core chips out at the time, and to give Sun a fair pricing schema, they gave the .25/core pricing on it. When the T2 chip came out, quad cores were prevalent. All my research shows the T2 to be .75/core Bradd Piontek "Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is in having someone else do a first-class job under your direction." -- William Feather On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Dan Norris <dannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Took a little digging, but the Sun server table is at > http://www.oracle.com/corporate/contracts/library/sun_server_table.pdf > > The reduced core multiplier is also listed in the definitions on the > Technology price list ( > http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/pricelists.html) on page 9. > > One does have to wonder why Oracle considers these CPUs to be less > productive or at least that's how I interpret their move to discount the > CPUs. > > Dan > > > Bradd Piontek wrote: > >> As far as I know, the T2 chipset gets no special licensing from Oracle (it >> is .75 per core like any other non-Intel/AMD processor). The T1 chipset that >> was found on the T2000 had the .25 per core. >> >> There is an article from Sun that talks about all the oracle related >> things you may see regarding performance on the CoolThread chips. >> >> http://blogs.sun.com/glennf/resource/Optimizing_Oracle_CMT_v1.pdf >> >>