I can buy 64 core servers for... well, without giving away discount margins, let's say well south of $30-40K (with a big slab of memory). The Oracle list price

I can buy 64 core servers for... well, without giving away discount margins, let's say well south of $30-40K (with a big slab of memory). The Oracle list price would be north of a couple of million dollars if I was buying "options" like partitioning. The software and hardware prices are totally out of whack. Especially considering the R&D that has to back up processors.