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How does this exploit Oracle database licensing? POWER has a 1x core multiple today (meaning, you have to license every core). https://www.oracle.com/assets/p
by tiffanyh 4y ago
How does this exploit Oracle database licensing?
POWER has a 1x core multiple today (meaning, you have to license every core).
https://www.oracle.com/assets/processor-core-factor-table-070634.pdf https://www.oracle.com/assets/processor-core-factor-table-07...
EDIT: Note, I just re-read the article. This is for the Standard Edition of the database, which basically has no extra features. I've never heard of anyone running Standard Edition except for doing local development.
- cduzz 4y agoYeah, reading that table, the "hack" would be to use "Intel® Xeon® Platinum 92XX" (or similar high throughput intel offering) with an 0.5 multiple. Does an oracle license pay attention to partial core things like hyperthreading or other speculative execution things? If so, you'd want to turn that off for the intel offerings. And run one socket to maximize memory bandwidth.
- _fat_santa 4y agoI always wondered, what is the rationale behind pricing certain software as "per-CPU"? Why not per machine? I'm guessing it's something to do with the size of datacenters and their use of virtualization?
- dragontamer 4y agoThe idea is to extract more money from people who can afford it. If someone has a 128-core AMD EPYC, they probably have more money that can be extracted than a person with a 16-core EPYC.
- tiffanyh 4y ago> The idea is to extract more money I'm not sure it should be characterized that way. It's pricing based on value. Clearly, someone running a database on a 128-core server is realizing way more value than someone running a 4-core server. So how do you charge where it's far pricing for both the 4-core server person and the 128-core server person.