Oracle Spreads Fractional Holiday Cheer

A Multi Grab Bag

Windows Server Division WebLog — Fri, 02 Mar 2007 20:00:44 GMT

CNET reported that Oracle "quietly cut software prices on some lower-end servers using multicore processors." Un-related to this, if you're interested in the network access control capabilities in Longhorn, check out Adam's post about NAP.

Virtualization and Windows vs Linux review of current licensing policies

Dugie's Pensieve — Fri, 06 Oct 2006 03:03:06 GMT

Virtualization and Windows licensing has been a pain point for a long time. There has been hints...

Linux-Watch: get the facts

Windows Server Division WebLog — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 18:00:09 GMT

Every now and again I use this blog to correct inaccuracies in the public domain. Mostly errors at media outlets. And usually I wouldn't comment on opinion pieces at Linux-Watch because the rhetorical debate would be fruitless. But one of our pals at

re: Oracle Spreads Fractional Holiday Cheer

David Hunter — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 02:10:58 GMT

When I saw the first headlines ( e.g. <a href="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1903865,00.asp">"Oracle Changes Prices to Reflect Multicore Chips"</a>), I was thinking of a post on Oracle caving in and following Microsoft's lead on multicore pricing. Then I read the details and had to laugh.