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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. Riiiight! by Donny+Smith · · Score: 0, Troll

    > So people will move to competition if the competition is more cost effective for them.

    Hah, hah! This is sooo funny!

    If the world worked like that, we'd all be running Linux and GPL software.

    Do you have any idea how painful it is for enterprise users to change their database vendor?
    Even upgrading to the latest version is a nightmare.