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Microsoft Won't Charge More for Multicore Licenses

Posted by timothy on from the great-order-up-a-few-dozen-cores dept.

esimp writes "According to technewsworld: 'As servers with dual-core processors come closer to hitting the market, Microsoft announced today it will not base its per-processor software licensing charges on the number of cores in a chip, sticking to the traditional price per processor, regardless of its number of cores." Update: 10/20 00:37 GMT by T : One of the identical links to TechNewsWorld's story has now been deleted.

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  1. Similar? by thejll · · Score: 0, Redundant

    There's a similar story at... excatly the same location.

  2. Re:Hurray for them! by c0d3m4n · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I know for a fact that Slackware doesn't. Otherwise, I'm outside the bounds of that hefty License it's under, using 2 CPUs right now.

  3. Re:Obviously by CypherOz · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Would someone tell Oracle!! Oracle is per core. On a P4 HT chip Oracle count 2 CPUs.

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