Comments on: Oracle lowers price for some multicore chips

Database giant updates policy so customers pay lower premium for AMD, Intel and Sun UltraSparc T1 multicore chips.

[zaznet]

Multicore Systems.

It is a matter of the increased availability of multicore systems. Oracle certainly does not need to charge per core to make their sustained revenue. It does need to realize that if it is charging a substantially higher price than a competitor, they will lose a lot more revenue.

I'm sure this change is a premium on Oracle products running on multicore systems and not cheaper on the customers. The article doesn't provide any figures and is very vague.

[hutchike]

Pricing details...

The details are all at http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/12/20/oracle_pricing_processor/

For example, the new T1000 and T2000 8-core servers will be charged a x2 price (using a 0.25 multiplier), the new X4100 and X4200 dual-core Opteron servers will be charged a x1 price (using a 0.5 multiplier) and everything else is priced using a 0.75 multiplier.

Personally I think it's a crazy pricing scheme and will cause many companies to look at MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server or DB2 instead.

[SqlserverCode]

right...

They changed their pricing because all other vendors don't charge more either

http://sqlservercode.blogspot.com/

[aabcdefghij987654321]

Still not competitive

They still charge more than their competitors and now their demonstrated disdain for security in their product makes it even less attractive. Something is seriously wrong at Oracle.

[Had_to_be_said]

How much is a gallon of gas..?

Well, that depends on how many cylinders your engine has, and how many passengers you carry.

This is insane. But then, it should help competing solutions quite a bit, so... GO ORACLE.