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Tony Rogerson wrote:
>
>>The price for Oracle Standard Edition One on a dual core machine is $4995 >>US or 2902 GBP.
Yes
> Because its dual-core (2 CPU's) I should
> add another 75% to that price?
No - not with the Standard Editions
> Check out http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/07/15/oracle_core_pricing/ which
> sums it up nicely.
> And it gets even more complicated! A sharp Register reader forwards this
> advisory from Oracle's finer print:
>
> "A multicore chip with 11 cores would require a 9 processor license (11
> multiplied by a factor of .75 equals 8.25 which is then rounded up to the
> next whole number which is 9)."
Note that the pricing structures quoted in the Register is for multicores machines that SQLServer doesn't run on - such as the IBM hardware, and also the Niagra. There are no 11 core machines Received on Sun Feb 26 2006 - 13:29:26 CST