The intention was that SE and SE1 were licensed per physical processor not per core. In the world that SE naturally inhabits - i.e commodity x86-64 servers then this makes perfect sense. I don't believe it to be any coincidence that the word socket is used since it's a classic intel motherboard term. It's the introduction (maybe 18 months ago) or so of the term multi-chip module that is somewhat obscure since in the strictest sense I'd imagine that all modern processors are multi-chip modules. My best guess would be that someone enterprisingly argued that you could license SE on the POWER5 ships that had 4 chips per physical socket :). Still I'd have fun asking the sales rep whether my proposed new dual processor server was multi-chip modules or not and if so why :) Niall On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 4:48 PM, Bradd Piontek <piontekdd@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I"ve been trying to get my head around this interpretation for a while. I'm > not sure this is correct (although it could be). A socket can have multiple > cores on them. Some of the newer models don't implement th em via > Multi-chip-modules. I can see how to Hex-Core chips could be used for > SE/SE-One. A core <> a socket. > > Bradd Piontek > The Pythian Group > > > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 10:27 AM, Allen, Brandon < > Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Mark, are you sure it’s permitted to license SE-1 on a 12-core server? >> I thought SE1 could only be licensed on a max of 2 cores according to this: >> >> >> >> http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/databaselicensing.pdf >> >> >> >> From p.2: >> >> “Oracle Standard Edition One may only be licensed on servers that have a >> maximum capacity of 2 sockets. “ >> >> >> >> From p.3: >> >> “When licensing Oracle programs with Standard Edition One or Standard >> Edition in the product name, a processor is counted equivalent to a socket” >> >> >> >> Maybe I’m misinterpreting it? >> >> >> >> Thanks, >> >> Brandon >> >> >> >> *From:* oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto: >> oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] *On Behalf Of *Mark Brinsmead >> >> >> Yeah, $10K to license Oracle SE-1 on a 12-core database server >> >> (And you can build a pretty darned powerful database server on SE-1 these >> days!) >> >> >> >> ------------------------------ >> Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message or >> attachments hereto. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do not >> consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, conclusions >> and other information in this message that do not relate to the official >> business of this company shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed >> by it. >> > > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info