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Oracle Effectively Doubles Licence Fees To Run Its Stuff in AWS (theregister.co.uk)

Posted by msmash on from the more-money dept.

Oracle has changed the way it charges users to run its software in Amazon Web Services, effectively doubling the cost along the way. From a report: Big Red's previous licensing regime recognised that AWS's virtual CPUs were a single thread of a core that runs two threads. Each virtual CPU therefore counted as half a core. That's changed: Oracle's new cloud licensing policy says an AWS vCPU is now treated as a full core if hyperthreading is not enabled. A user hiring two AWS vCPUS therefore needs to pay full freight for both, effectively doubling the number of Oracle licences required to run Big Red inside AWS. And therefore doubling the cost as well. The new policy also says: "When counting Oracle Processor license requirements in Authorized Cloud Environments, the Oracle Processor Core Factor Table is not applicable." That table says Xeons cores count as half a licence. Making the Table inapplicable to the cloud again doubles the licence count required.

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  1. Another yacht for Larry? by Hognoxious · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fuck that. He wants an island to moor it to.

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    1. Re:Another yacht for Larry? by alvinrod · · Score: 5, Funny

      Reminds me of the old joke:

      Q: What does ORACLE stand for?
      A: One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison

  2. Lesson 1: How to piss off your Customers by arbiter1 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Step 1: Do this.

  3. Great news!! by Grishnakh · · Score: 4, Funny

    I think this is an excellent move for Oracle, and I enthusiastically applaud them. I think the company will experience significant revenue increases with this pricing change, and that's always a good thing. In fact, I encourage them to raise prices even more.

    For all the naysayers, as I always say when someone complains about Windows, "if you don't like it, don't use it".

    1. Re:Great news!! by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

      They are synergisticly leveraging revenue opportunities by maximizing customer monetary intake to better align their customers with Oracle's enhanced and cutting-edge cloud-based strategic product pricing goals.

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  4. Genius! by The-Ixian · · Score: 5, Funny

    I can just see some exec racking their brain trying to figure out how to increase revenue finally had an epiphany: "Eureka! I got it! We'll just charge our customers twice as much!" to which everyone at the board meeting replied "Brilliant! You deserve a promotion!". Smiles and carefree laughter were gifted with abandon that day...

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    1. Re:Genius! by bobbied · · Score: 3, Funny

      Now that's true, funny and sad all at the same time.... Oh I do whish I had mod points today....

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  5. Re:And the shift to Databases away from Oracle by Anonymous+Brave+Guy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Those that know it can make it jump up, sing, dance, and pretty much do anything a a thousand times faster than the pretend databases.

    Of course it can. That's why companies like Google and Facebook, with their modest but slowly growing database needs, have all moved from pretend databases to Oracle as they've scaled up.

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