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VMware takes dual-core licensing plunge
News In a move that should please its customers, but not necessarily its shareholders, VMware announced on Tuesday that it would price its software for dual-core processors at the same price as it does for single-core systems.
[August 17, 2005, 16:50]
IBM muddies dual-core pricing waters
News IBM is a dualist when it comes to software licensing and dual-core processors. The change in IBM's licensing practices demonstrates the variety of licensing practices among companies when it comes to multicore processors.
[April 22, 2005, 9:10]
HP and Intel round on Oracle over dual-core licences
News Intel's Shannon pointed to BEA as another software company that does not yet see software licensing on dual core systems the same way as Intel does. They have focused on licensing by core, but we’re trying hard to have them see things the way we do.
[February 11, 2005, 12:30]
Redmond announces free multi-core support
News Chip makers Intel and AMD recommend a policy of counting a processing module -- which may include more than one core -- as a single processor for software licensing. That long-standing licensing convention is being challenged by the arrival of...
[October 19, 2004, 9:15]
Dual cores mean double trouble
Leader We understand it is still lobbying Microsoft -- together with other software vendors such as Oracle -- over multi-core licensing issues. The reason is that few software vendors, many of whom currently sell licences on the basis of how many...
[February 8, 2005, 11:10]
McNealy takes pricing fight to Oracle
News Oracle recently published its policy on dual-core licensing. If you go to a restaurant and order two apples, it doesn't matter how the server delivers the apples to you," Jacqueline Woods, vice-president of global pricing and licensing strategy...
[December 9, 2004, 7:30]
Oracle to lower multi-core pricing?
News Oracle refused to confirm this, but said that an announcement about its dual-core pricing would be made on Friday by Jacqueline Woods, vice-president of global pricing and licensing strategy at Oracle.
[July 14, 2005, 18:20]
Dual-core Xeons play to Dell's strengths
News You can commoditise the box, but you can't commoditise the operating systems, applications and management, and with the complexity of dual and multi-core licensing from different software vendors, you're going to need some good management software...
[November 2, 2005, 15:55]
Preview: Intel Developer Forum
News In contrast, Microsoft said its licensing terms will count dual-core chips as a single processor. It would also sort of weaken their case with Oracle on licensing. That means customers wind up paying more for software that runs on dual-core systems.
[February 25, 2005, 16:40]
Oracle fails to face the future
Leader One piece of software may be running on any number of processors anywhere in the world: the old licensing model is as relevant to this as longbow practice is to the Marines. If Oracle wants to be taken seriously as a player in this new world, it...
[December 9, 2004, 11:40]
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 review
Reviews New licensing The new licensing scheme takes a little understanding. The combination of the revamped licensing model and Advanced Platform tools will help customers make much larger savings when consolidating servers compared to rival...
[April 3, 2007, 13:41]
Architecture and morality
Leader It also has the chance of bogging down in complexity, creating a licensing environment which is difficult to understand, hard to manage and impossible to cost. Run your database on our system, and save on licensing.
[July 25, 2006, 15:25]
Oracle plays catch-up on multi-core pricing
News Under Oracle's previous licensing strategy, each eight-core "Niagara" T1 processor would have been licensed as if each core was three-quarters of a single-core processor so the "Niagara" would have been charged at the equivalent of six systems.
[December 20, 2005, 16:55]
The software licensing shake-up
News Is a dual-core chip, one processor, for licensing purposes, or two? Microsoft, for example, estimates a performance increase of 35 percent to 40 percent over single-core for its own software running on a dual-core system.
[September 29, 2005, 15:45]
Hardware trends may hit software costs
News Gartner claims the move to multi-core chip architectures, virtualised hardware and utility computing threatens existing capacity or processing (CPU)-based licensing agreements offered by the major software vendors.
[November 23, 2004, 15:45]
IBM plans revamp of server pricing
News As partitioning has advanced, the size of the virtual machines has become fluidly adjustable — and now a virtual machine can be migrated from one computer to another without shutting down, an even bigger software licensing headache.
[July 25, 2006, 8:40]
Intel accelerates Itanium schedule
News In larger servers, Oracle and other software vendors charge a licensing fee for every processor in a given server. Originally, Montecito, due in 2004, wasn't a dual-core chip, but it morphed into one after engineering and manufacturing teams...
[January 16, 2003, 8:16]
What's the best way to increase processing power?
News Another consideration when you add processors is the cost of software licensing. However, you can add a many processors as you want to a Windows Server 2003 file server without paying extra licensing fees, although you may need to buy extra client...
[August 2, 2006, 16:40]
Sun has its head in the clouds
Leader This second hurdle is at least as high as the first; just look at the consternation caused by dual-core processor among those who have to work with, and work out, software licensing models. How do you charge for software running on a combination of...
[September 22, 2004, 12:25]
Sun looks to GPL v3 for Java, Solaris
News I believe if GPLv3 dual-licensing is done right, it will improve this situation drastically. Illuminata analyst Jonathan Eunice sees "artfulness with a little bit of jujitsu" in Sun's open source licensing decisions.
[February 9, 2007, 15:22]
