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by ffsm8 250 days ago
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

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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.

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