Re: Oracle licensing for Intel XEON

From: Dave <david.sharples3_at_ntlXworld.com>
Date: Mon, 31 May 2004 11:07:24 +0100
Message-ID: <blEuc.49$cN.21@newsfe2-win>

"Vsevolod Afanassiev" <vafanassiev_at_aapt.com.au> wrote in message news:4f7d504c.0405302323.f1505cf_at_posting.google.com...
> I got a Windows box with 2 Intel XEON processors.
> Each presents itself to the outside world as two processors -
> at least this is what I can see in Windows Task Manager
> and in V$PARAMETER for CPU_COUNT. Does it mean that 4
> I need Processor licenses? Or 2 are sufficient?
>
> Oracle document on database licensing that I downloaded from
> http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing
> talks about "multicore chip with N processor cores",
> does Intel XEON falls into this category?
>
> Thanks

We had this dicussion a while back, im pretty sure Oracle will take this as 4 CPUs Received on Mon May 31 2004 - 05:07:24 CDT