Oracle customers with CPU-based licenses on Sun Fire T1000 and T200 would count cores as .23% of a processor, and charged according, Oracle said.
In other words, each server will be priced as though it were two-core machine.
With these new Sun Fire systems, Sun is not only enabling Oracle’s huge user base on UltraSPARC to maximize the performance of their applications and realize the significant cost savings benefits of this new multi-threaded platform, they’re also creating a new market opportunity with a high-performance, low-cost deployment alternative for Oracle grid, said Oracle president Charles Phillips, in a statement.
