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IBM to create 24-core Power chip so customers can exploit Oracle database license

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Re: For now...

> Charging per socket is a fool's game... than the biggest HP Superdome

Of course for the Superdomes, or at least those with the Itanic, Oracle charged per core and even per thread. We had to disable the hyperthreading because it only gave about a 25% performance boost but doubled our license costs. Ouch

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