[dylan604]

People continue to use these limitations. A long time ago when multicore CPUs were new or even systems with multiple CPUs saw vendors charge higher fees to allow their software to run on more than one core/cpu. My first run in with this was transcoding software with the license running ~$5k per core. To them, it was a whole second computer since everything was single threaded, so they felt it was worth twice as much. All it took was for someone else to not charge per core and took away business for that sales model to go the way of the dodo.

[ffsm8]

Huh? Isn't that oracle's business strategy in 2025, still?

I mean my current role doesn't put me into these kinds of considerations anymore, but I didn't hear they've changed their ways - so I just thought that's still the way you pay for Oracle DB

[comprev]

Oracle was the first company I thought of who licensed per-CPU.

Many moons ago I was a sysadmin at a company and first heard about their licensing strategy when sizing up some new multi-socket Opteron servers. First time I learned about per-CPU licensing.

[nnurmanov]

It’s per core licensing with core factors. Core factor ranges from 0.25 to 1. I have not checked how it is now, but it used to be as above 5-10 years ago