An Oracle executive confirmed that the company has adjusted its per-CPU licensing to accommodate a new generation of multi-core chips.
As of July 8, each core of new multi-core AMD or Intel processors will be licensed as if it were 75 percent of a CPU.
CRN broke the news of the change on Wednesday.
Oracle pricing and licensing guru Jacqueline Woods said the company had been working on tweaks for months to reflect the reality of new, more compute-intensive CPUs that basically pack multiple chip capabilities on a single processor.
Up until now, Redwood Shores, Calif.-based
Oracle had counted each core as a separate CPU and charged accordingly. Thus a four-way dual-core server running Oracle 10g Enterprise Edition at $40,000 per CPU had been $320,000 and will now be $240,000.
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