I ran across this article on ZDNet today.  It looks like Oracle is cutting prices on its lower end servers by pegging database license costs to a server's processor socket count rather than the number of processor cores on a server. 

From the article:

The move could cut the costs of purchasing Oracle database software by as much as 87 percent in some cases.

The move, described in an unpublicized pricing document (PDF) on Oracle's Web site, took effect February 16, just days before Microsoft announced an update to its rival SQL Server 2005 software.

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Brent Martin

 

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Last Updated on Sunday, 12 August 2007 20:25.