No one ever got fired for hating Oracle

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Dec 15, 2022

IBM to create 24-core Power CPU chiefly for Oracle databases

Big Red doesn't charge more when users add cores, so Big Blue plans to triple the count. Because why not?

HardwareGeek

But Big Red is infamously fond of ensuring it maximizes revenue from customers. As the Power S1014 did not have a 24-core option at launch, it could well decide that tripling core count is a more generous interpretation of the SE2 license than intended, and give it a tweak.

pcooper

I'm amused just how much effort has been expended by various IT organizations at figuring out how to optimize costs by minimizing whichever attribute the licensing cost uses as a multiplier. If the software costs per user, then having as many human beings as possible share a "user" account. If the software costs per computer it's installed on, then have all the users connect via Terminal Services or equivalent to one computer. If the software costs per CPU, then do things like this to minimize CPU count. I've seen all of these in my career, and I'm guessing there are much crazier examples out there.

(Of course, everyone knows the proper amount to charge for software is $0.05.)

Benjamin Hall

@pcooper said in No one ever got fired for hating Oracle:

I'm amused just how much effort has been expended by various IT organizations at figuring out how to optimize costs by minimizing whichever attribute the licensing cost uses as a multiplier. If the software costs per user, then having as many human beings as possible share a "user" account. If the software costs per computer it's installed on, then have all the users connect via Terminal Services or equivalent to one computer. If the software costs per CPU, then do things like this to minimize CPU count. I've seen all of these in my career, and I'm guessing there are much crazier examples out there.

(Of course, everyone knows the proper amount to charge for software is $0.05.)

All metrics will be gamed. Metrics that cost money will be gamed even faster.