Re: Oracle Licences Req on Intel Xeon CPU

Depending on the OS, Microsoft has different CPU counts. The Windows 2000 family
counts each hyper thread as 1 CPU. In contrast, Windows XP and Windows 2003 Server
count each CPU instead of each hyper thread. Thus, the task manager in Windows XP
Professional show 4 CPU's (on a dual XEON CPU computer with hyper threading enabled) while Windows 2000 Professional only shows 2 CPU's in the task manager.

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tjambu_fatcity_at_yahoo.com.au wrote:

>Hi all
>
>For those that are running or intending on running Oracle on
>Intel's Xeon CPU, the following information may be of interest to you.
>
>The Xeon CPU has a feature called Hyper Threading with double the number
>of registers. This feature when turned will present to the Operating
>Systems an additional virtual CPU. As far as the O/S is concern, it
>looks like there are _two_ CPUs. What does this mean to your software
>licensing?
>
>Microsoft says that it is one CPU. What does Oracle say?
>
>Well, it depends on who you speak to and what day of the week it is.
>Seriously, you will need to get some confirmation in writing from your
>account manager the next time you purchase Oracle S/w for Intel's Xeon
>
>ta
>tony
>
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