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0 pointstootie4y ago0 comments

It's hilarious given that they used to charge you per CPU _for software_. You had to bring your own CPUs.

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Oracle and VMware per-socket licensing is one of the main reasons server-class CPUs have gazillions of cores. A vSphere licence+support for a single machine can easily run into 5 figures.

jonfw4y ago

That's still a common billing model- how Red Hat bills for openshift for instance.

It's a simple and pretty good proxy for usage

Eeems4y ago

Pretty sure they still do for some software they sell ;)

mhh__4y ago

Maybe thats why POWER chips have so many SMT threads per core

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