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Should Dual Cores Require Dual Licenses?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the symmetrical-multi-paying dept.

sebFlyte writes "The multi-core debate continues. HP and Intel have laid into Oracle and (to a lesser extent) BEA over their their treatment of multi-core processers. Oracle's argument that 'a core is a CPU and therefore you should pay us all your money' isn't a popular one, it would seem. What does Oracle's stubbornness imply for the industry as a whole, with multicore chips coming to the fore so strongly?"

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  1. Processers? by AddressException · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm not paying for any "processers"!

  2. I didn't know oracle even looked at processors by ponds · · Score: 5, Funny

    I thought that they just turned you upside down and saw how much money fell out of your pockets.

    1. Re:I didn't know oracle even looked at processors by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      That's only step 1...
      Pants start coming off at step 2.

  3. Oracle's salesman rallying cry by yorkpaddy · · Score: 1, Funny

    "Get The MOney, Get The Fucking Money"

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  4. I offer a better deal by backslashdot · · Score: 2, Funny

    I charge on a per logic gate basis.

    I was going to charge on a per transistor basis but decided against it.

    Yeah I realize I wont be utilizing all the logic gates per transaction .. but hey .. who says i have to care about that?

  5. What about Hyperthreading? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I mean, it's like 1 1/2 cores, so how do they handle that?

  6. Re:BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Daniel Ocean - is that really you?

  7. Re:Agree, or agree not. There is no should. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny
    From Oracle's perspective, why should customers halve their license fees by simply upgrading to dual cores?

    Well, then why should customers halve their license fees by simply upgrading to faster CPUs?

  8. Re:There _Are_ Other DBMS's by myowntrueself · · Score: 2, Funny

    But maybe I should have to agree to two GPLs to use it on a hyperthreading CPU?

    ;)

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  9. Re:There _Are_ Other DBMS's by Anonym0us+Cow+Herd · · Score: 2, Funny

    PostgreSQL is coming along nicely...

    Oracle and friends can make the following convincing argument to PHB's....

    ....but PostgreSQL is still going to charge you twice as much to run PostgreSQL on a dual core CPU as you would pay to run PostgreSQL on a single core CPU.

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  10. implications? by kevin+lyda · · Score: 2, Funny

    "What does Oracle's stubbornness imply for the industry as a whole, with multicore chips coming to the fore so strongly?"

    more marketshare.

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  11. Re: There _Are_ Other DBMS's by gidds · · Score: 2, Funny
    "Can't we get you on 'Mastermind', Sybil? Next contestant, Sybil Fawlty from Torquay, special subject the bleeding obvious."

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