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I 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
by _fat_santa 4y ago
I 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.