Oracle, which charges software licensing fees per processor core rather than per processor as many of its competitors now do, is likely debating a move now and will certainly need to make changes at ...

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 ...

On Monday, Gartner Group told its corporate clients to double-check Oracle software-licensing fees to ensure that the company has not "inappropriately imposed extra" charges on their database use.