Re: T3 processor/system & Oracle License
Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 10:57:16 -0500
Message-ID: <4CA4B35C.6040809_at_ardentperf.com>
I was just talking about this at OpenWorld. I'm getting increasingly frustrated with Oracle (and other folks are getting frustrated too). Oracle needs to fix their broken licensing model.
For the past few decades, Moore's law has been applied to processors by making smaller more efficient circuits and thus faster chips. In that ecosystem, Oracle could charge by socket or by core because there was room for processing growth without automatically doubling license costs.
Today the chips can't get any smaller. Moore's law is applied to processors by increasing parallelism. Intel says "this new chip now has 64 cores!!" ...and I say "NOOOOOOOO! My license costs!!!!!"
We need to maintain the growth of processing capacity we've had for the past few decades, but nobody can afford to start doubling our database license costs every year. This business of "fractional pricing for cores" isn't going to fix anything in the long run. Oracle REALLY needs to do something about it, and I'm getting a bit tired of waiting... these costs are getting a little crazy for the average business.
-Jeremy
Zhu,Chao wrote:
> with recent release of the T3 processor/system:
>
> so does anyone know how oracle is going to license the new T3
> processor for its oracle database server? in T2 it was 0.75/core, so
> each socket uses 6 oracle license;
>
> With T3 not adding more threads to each core, and each socket with 16
> cores, each socket is going to use 12 oracle license then?
>
> Also in the very early days the tech specification from external (even
> wiki) was each core of the T3 processor is going to be 16 threads
> (instead of the current 8 threads, which is same as T2); Was oracle
> afraid of charging each core 1.5 license:)?
>
>
> --
> Regards
> Zhu Chao
>
>
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