An analyst recently made a statement that under CPU licensing "Oracle is
charging for unused CPU slots". I found this very surprising. I can see two
possible interpretations:
1. If the system is capable of holding 8 CPUs, but I only have 4 CPUs
installed, Oracle would charge me for 8 CPUs. I find this unacceptable. For
one thing, in some machines, a slot can contain either a CPU or memory.
2. Some vendors (HP I believe) have offered an upgrade on demand
configuration, where the system is delivered with more CPUs than the
customer purchased. If the customer wants additional processing power, the
vendor can switch on the additional CPUs, saving a visit by a customer
engineer. Another possibility would be if I had a way to limit the number of
CPUs that could execute Oracle. This doesn't sound so bad, since it might be
easy to increase the number of CPUs without paying additional fees to
Oracle.
Has anyone heard of this type of license interpretation by Oracle?
Our license renewal is coming up soon and we would prefer to not be
blindsided.
Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com
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Received on Wed Mar 27 2002 - 09:23:31 CST
