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Oracle updates multi-core licensing policy

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NEW DELHI: Oracle updated its multi-core processor pricing and licensing policy in an effort to provide simple and flexible licensing models to meet its customer's needs.

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According to Jacqueline Woods, Oracle vice president of global pricing and licensing strategy, said: “The goal of Oracle's pricing and licensing strategy is to provide simple and flexible licensing models to meet our customers' needs.”

“Oracle will continue to recognize each core as a separate processor; however, the processor definition has been amended as it relates to counting multi-core chips to determine the total number of processor licenses required. For the purposes of counting the number of processors that require licensing, the number of cores in a multi-core chip now shall be multiplied by a factor of .75,” she said.

Oracle Standard Edition One or Standard Edition programs for use on a single processor server containing a maximum of 2 cores shall be priced as a single processor.

“Licensing our database software by processor is one of several choices we provide to our customers. Other options include licensing per user and per employee. Oracle also offers the option of licensing its software on a term or perpetual basis,” Woods concluded.

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