No, there isn't. This was already discussed here. See for example //www.freelists.org/post/oracle-l/oracle-EE-pricing,31 and the whole thread oracle EE pricing Gints Plivna http://www.gplivna.eu 2011/4/4 Upendra N <nupendra@xxxxxxxxxxx>: > Hello all, > In a Standard edition Oracle RAC configuration, we can have a maximum of 4 > CPU sockets on all the nodes combined together. Are there any restrictions > on the number of (Intel/AMD) CPU cores per socket? > > Thanks in advance > -Upendra > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l