Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Multi-Core Chips And Software Licensing

Posted by timothy on from the now-waitaminute-there dept.

i_r_sensitive writes "NetworkWorldFusion has an article on the interaction between multi-core processors and software licensed and charged on a per-processor basis. Interesting to see how/if Oracle and others using this pricing model react. Can multi-core processors put the final nail in per-processor licensing?"

2 of 248 comments (clear)

  1. no by dark404 · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Most likely per-"Physical Processor" will be changed to per-"Physical Processor Die" since the multi-cores still share a die.

  2. Re:Oracle 9i RAC doesn't charge for HT by Dark+Lord+Seth · · Score: 5, Insightful

    That's because HyperThreading is a neat and very low level trick that makes it appear like there are two processors. A dual-core processor doesn't use any tricks and physically contains two processing cores on one chip. Of course, this could lead to some very interesting things such as an dual core AMD proc using one shared on-chip memory controller or Intel procs with dual-cores AND hyperthreading for a total of 4 procs.

    I'm looking forward to dual-cores.

    --
    Hate me!