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Oracle Effectively Doubles Licence Fees To Run Its Stuff in AWS (theregister.co.uk)
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.
Fuck that. He wants an island to moor it to.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
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...
My eyes reflect the stars and a smile lights up my face.
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.
Table-ized A.I.