Re: oracle updates multi core licensing

From: NetComrade <netcomradeNSPAM_at_bookexchange.net>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2005 18:19:54 GMT
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On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 18:42:31 GMT, HansF <News.Hans_at_telus.net> wrote:

>On Mon, 19 Dec 2005 17:29:13 -0800, hpuxrac wrote:
>
>> Now 1 AMD dual core or Intel dual core counts as 1 cpu
>>
>> 8 core Sun Fire T2000 counts as 2
>>
>> http://www.crn.com/sections/breakingnews/dailyarchives.jhtml?articleId=175006718
>>
>> So the oracle license price for 1 dual core cpu is half that as a
>> machine with 2 single core cpu's.
>
>Interesting side question ... now that we know how pricing works, how
>about processor count for other aspects of licensing?
>
>Since Oracle Database Standard Edition can only be used on machines
>with 1-4 processor, does a dual-core count as 1 or 2 processors?

I'll 'speculate':
The licencing is 'per cpu', not 'per core'. So if 2 cores count as 1 CPU, the 4CPU (but 8core) limitation should still work on Standard licenses...
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We run Oracle 9.2.0.6 on RH4 AMD
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