Posted by Shaun O'Reilly on 11/23/05 06:12

Q: Will Oracle adjust its pricing based on advancements in hardware
technology, such as dual-core processors?
JW: A: No, we have no plans to change our processor licensing policies.
We charge per processor, which is the same as per core. For several
years, IBM has employed dual-core chip technology for their hardware.
Today, all their machines are based on dual-core or multi-core chips.
Several other hardware vendors are also pushing multi-core chips in
which more than one core is on one chip. Sun, for example, recently
released a dual-core UltraSparc chip. Both Intel and Advanced Micro
Devices have recently announced that they will also introduce dual-core
chips next year.

Some of the hardware vendors are suggesting software makers like Oracle
should retool their licensing models and charge per chip instead of
charging per processor. Microsoft recently announced they would charge
per chip and not per processor as Oracle and IBM both do today.


Look at: http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pressroom/jwoods_multicore.html

Read for yourselves


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