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Oh man, the licensing costs for any “per core” software are going to be insane :D
by BonesJustice 8y ago
Oh man, the licensing costs for any “per core” software are going to be insane :D
- PedroBatista 8y agoA few years ago many companies changed it to "per socket". Now with 64 cores in one socket things got even weirder, but then again, those licenses always have been in some parallel universe.
- Twirrim 8y agoThere's still a disturbing amount of software that operates on a per-core pricing model. Some of them include Hyperthread in that core count. When we launched Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, (as Bare Metal Cloud, before we launched our VM product), our standard bare metal instance had 36 cores, 72 threads with HT enabled. One interested customer couldn't use our platform because just licensing their standard software on our platform was going to set them back some $250,000 due to all those 72 "cores". The product manager at the time mentioned there were several other customers facing that issue with their various bits of enterprise software.