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20051220 Tuesday December 20, 2005
Oracle license for UltraSparc T1 the same as Dual Xeon
It's finally official you can read about it here, page 8 has Oracle's description of a processor for licensing calculations. So to summarize Oracle Enterprise license is $40000 or ($60000 with RAC) per processor.

When a chip has multiple cores the rules change
So an 8 core UltraSparc T1  8 * .25  = 2 oracle licenses = $80000
A dual Xeon server 2 * 1 = 2 oracle licenses = $80000

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