
Tuesday December 20, 2005
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
- UltraSparc T1 core factor .25
- AMD or Intel core factor .5
- Everthing else core factor .75
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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