Will treat each core as three-quarters of a chip when calculating license costs, bringing it more in line with rivals. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge ...

Following months of anticipation and some high-profile criticism, Oracle has changed the licensing model for its databases and middleware on multicore servers, bringing it a step closer in line with ...

Company's software licenses will consider each individual processor core on multicore chips to be 0.75 of a processor Oracle will edge closer to a licensing model for multicore processors that has ...

Oracle confirmed a change to its multicore processor pricing and licensing model Friday after the news first appeared on the company’s Web site Thursday. The database and applications vendor will no ...