Re: 2x opteron single core or 1xdual core CPU server for Oracle?

From: hpuxrac <johnbhurley_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: 19 Dec 2005 11:17:10 -0800
Message-ID: <1135019829.934027.212580@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups.com>

Oracle apparently has just released an update to the multi core pricing.

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We just got an official pricing update on the multicore licensing multiplier.

• 0.25 multiplication factor for SUN 1.2 GHz UltraSPARC T1 processor that contains up to 8 cores.
• 0.50 multiplication factor for multicore AMD and Intel chips
• 0.75 multiplication factor for all other multicore chips

Examples:
Sun Fire T2000 Server with one 1.2 GHz UltraSPARC T1 processor (with 8 cores) will require 8*0.25 = 2 Processor licenses Sun Fire T2000 Server with one 1.2 GHz UltraSPARC T1 processor (with 4 cores) will require 4*0.25 = 1 Processor licenses HP Integrity rx7620-16 Server with 8 Intel Itanium 2 processors (dual cores) will require 8*2*0.5 = 8 Processor licenses HP ProLiant DL145 G2 with two AMD Opteron 200 Series dual-core processors Model 280 will require 2*2*0.5 = 2 processor license

All these changes are retroactive, so no license migration is necessary.

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This apparently makes a machine with 2 separate single processors twice as expensive as a machine with 1 dual core AMD or INTEL processor. Received on Mon Dec 19 2005 - 13:17:10 CST