New tariff rates from Oracle

Last year, Oracle issued new tariff rates for servers that were using multi-core processors. The latest changes in its licensing structures may be beneficial to users of Sun. itweek.co.uk says:

Significantly, Oracle will charge a factor of just 0.25 of a single-core CPU fee per core for UltraSparc T1 processors that squeeze in eight cores per CPU. Therefore, Oracle software running on eight cores would require only two software licences.

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