Re: oracle EE pricing

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:33:17 +0000
Message-ID: <7765c8971001190933t4be1c52asc22f60350c74e8d7_at_mail.gmail.com>

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_at_gmail.com> 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_at_oneneck.com> 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_at_freelists.org [mailto:
>> oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] *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!)
>>
>>
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