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Story: HP and Intel round on Oracle over dual-core licences

Posted by: Thomas Banks (Saturday 12 February 2005, 6:27 PM)

I agree with Muhammad. Oracle, BEA, and Microsoft are trying to justify padding their profit margins while stating that they're only sticking to their previous license agreements with customers.

I believe that if these software companies wish to stick to their current business model, each processor package should be regarded as one CPU, regardless of how many cores are on the die. Since AMD and Intel are having significant difficulty increasing clock rates up to and beyond 10 GHz, this is the next logical step until manufacturing technology can catch up with the current state of processor design. I have no doubt that we will see 10 and 100 GHz processors, but probably not within the next 10 years. Software companies that try to pull this kind of stunt will do nothing but make themselves look bad and upset their customers.