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Consumers would never go for that...[ Parent | Reply to This ] (none / 0) (#12)
by Anonymous User on Tue Nov 15, 2005 at 12:17:54 PM PDT

Such dual & multi-core pricing won't last long. Micro$$$oft was at least "right" in treating a multi-core PC as one machine as that's the direction that "standard" computers are headed. Imagine if Doom 3 cost twice as much for a dual-core version, or if M$ charged twice as much for dual-core version of Office because WordArt and Access ran "that much better". People would leave in droves.

Oracle's pricing model will change soon, especially once single-core processors are no longer available. Quad- and even 8-core CPUs are no longer fantasy, both on the server & client side. That means that as the number of CPU cores increases exponentially to infinity, Oracle's price will do the same, while SQL Server will remain constant... I can't see such pricing models being more than temporary.

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