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AMD's 12-Core Chip Cuts Software Licensing Costs

Posted by Soulskill on from the fewer-boxes-fewer-problems dept.

CWmike writes "AMD released on Monday its 12-core chip code-named Magny-Cours, doubling the number of cores over the previous-generation Opteron chip. While a doubling of performance is nice, another key benefit delivered by a chip with a dozen cores may be in reducing software costs. For Matt Lavallee, director of technology at MLS Property Information Network, a company that supplies real estate data, upgrading to the 12-core Opteron chip from his current quad-core chips will allow him to cut the number of servers — and his software licensing fees. While the 12-core chip costs a little more than an eight-core chip, it's 'nowhere near as much as a SQL server costs,' said Lavallee, who has been beta-testing the new chips. MLS operates 60 servers, and Lavallee said he could theoretically cut the number of servers by half but will likely reduce his server count by a third with the chip upgrade." Reader adeelershad82 adds that AMD is hoping the new Opterons will compete with Intel in the high-volume server market.

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  1. Re:Software Licensing Costs? by Bigjeff5 · · Score: 1, Troll

    Yeah, you know, the OS that is preferred 20 to 1 to Linux. ;)

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  2. Re:Cry me a MS licensing costs river! by PopeRatzo · · Score: 0, Troll

    I KNEW the SCO thing would come up in this discussion, and it occurs within the first 10 replies.

    Since the OP used the term "cocksmoking" I think he may have been talking about a different OS with a three-character name.

    What? What'd I say?

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