As of July 8, each core of new multi-core AMD or Intel processors will be licensed as if it were 75 percent of a CPU. CRN broke the news of the change on Wednesday. Oracle pricing and licensing guru ...

Whereas the company had previously counted each core as a full processor, it will now count each core of a multi-core chip as three-quarters of a processor. That would mean that Oracle 10g Enterprise ...

Will treat each core as three-quarters of a chip when calculating license costs, bringing it more in line with rivals. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge ...

Company's software licenses will consider each individual processor core on multicore chips to be 0.75 of a processor Oracle will edge closer to a licensing model for multicore processors that has ...