[geeks] Oracle dbs on Sun T2000?

[Bryan Fullerton]

On 6/20/06, Francois Dion <francois.dion at gmail.com> wrote:
> I haven't, but let me interject this: if you are paying for the Oracle
> licenses on a per cpu basis, it would not be cost effective at all.

You know about the new Oracle licensing for multi-core processors?

http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/multicore_faq.pdf

(there's probably a plain HTML link somewhere, but I couldn't quickly
find it, someone else feel free to send one)

It's still not cheap, but at least not 8x the cost for 8 cores.

Bryan