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It's hilarious given that they used to charge you per CPU _for software_. You had to bring your own CPUs.
by tootie 5y ago
It's hilarious given that they used to charge you per CPU _for software_. You had to bring your own CPUs.
- Eeems 5y agoPretty sure they still do for some software they sell ;)
- jonfw 5y agoThat's still a common billing model- how Red Hat bills for openshift for instance. It's a simple and pretty good proxy for usage
- mhh__ 5y agoMaybe thats why POWER chips have so many SMT threads per core
- bityard 5y agoOracle and VMware per-socket licensing is one of the main reasons server-class CPUs have gazillions of cores. A vSphere licence+support for a single machine can easily run into 5 figures.