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by rowland66 1744 days ago
It is not shown, but I expect that Oracle EE is probably the most significant contributor to software licensing costs. If Oracle licensing was computed for 288 cores, that is totally unrealistic. Oracle EE would only run on a subset of cores.
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PeterisP 1744 days ago
If I recall correctly, Oracle licencing would actually require to pay for all the 288 cores on the host even if just a subset of the VMs in that virtualization run Oracle.
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sllabres 1744 days ago
True for all x86 virtualization i know of. But not true for IBM Power LPARs where only the entitled CPU resources have to be licensed and can even be shared between LPAR (Power Enterprise Pool). I don't know for sure but would therefore assume that it's the same for the IBM mainframe platform.
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rbanffy 1744 days ago
In 1996 I remember Oracle was licensed per user. We were planning to use it to back a Netscape Publishing System (IIRC) for a portal with both open and subscription-based areas.

Guess what happened when Oracle learned we were planning to have 3 million users...

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