Re: T3 processor/system & Oracle License
- From: Paul Drake <bdbafh@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: exriscer@xxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2010 11:49:59 -0400
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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