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Tonight I chaired the WSA (Washington Software Alliance) Database SIG
meeting and our speaker was from Sun Microsystems.
It was my first in-depth exposure to N1 (HP and IBM have their tradenames for it too) which allows the dynamic swapping of resources in the data center. What I found most interesting from the database standpoint was what the implications of this technology to licensing agreements.
What will Oracle do when you can install on a 1 CPU machine and then make CPUs on other machines available dynamically? Charge by the CPU tick? And if so how will usage be reported and billing accomplished. Or what if I install on a 10 CPU machine but make 6 of those CPUs available as part of a pool for processing non-Oracle jobs?
Just thought I'd open this up for general discussion as it appears we will all be facing this in a year or two at the most.
-- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/extinfo/certprog/oad/oad_crs.asp damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)Received on Thu May 22 2003 - 00:05:34 CDT