Oracle FAQ | Your Portal to the Oracle Knowledge Grid |
Home -> Community -> Usenet -> c.d.o.misc -> Re: License cost for Intel dual-core processors
boogab00_at_yahoo.com wrote:
> I thought dual-core processors were licensed at .75 of single processor
> price but just saw on Oracle's website that they now only charge .50
> for dual-core licenses. Does anyone have any insight on when this
> changed. Just curious as this is a good thing.
>
AFAIK its always been the case - at least from the time the core multipliers were put in place. Note that different CPU cores have different multipliers - Intel is 0.5, Niagara is 0.25, the IBM cores are 0.75 Received on Sun Jul 30 2006 - 11:42:19 CDT