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Frenemies: Microsoft and Oracle
Scott D. RosenbergMicrosoft, Oracle: News You Can Use, Virtualization, WindowsLeave a Comment on Frenemies: Microsoft and Oracle

A few hours ago, Oracle and Microsoft announced their new frenemies relationship that allows pieces of Oracle’s software to mesh with Microsoft’s software and online services. Basically, Microsoft and Oracle agreed to act like friends + enemies so that companies can run Oracle software on Windows Server Hyper V, the “virtualization” software – and Windows Azure. This could be the start of a books entitled Frenemies in the Cloud, a light-hearted, comedy about love, life and competition.

Processor/CPU licensing: Intel Hyper-threading throws off count
Scott D. RosenbergUncategorizedLeave a Comment on Processor/CPU licensing: Intel Hyper-threading throws off count

Some processors have a dual core, single chip that appears to be two CPUs within the Oracle kernel (the Oracle kernel determines the number of CPUs on a system during start-up). This is the case with Intel Hyper-threading, where the number of physical CPUs doubles when running on Linux or Windows with a hyper-threading setting of OS or BIOS. Oracle will charge a CPU license fee for the extra cores in multiple core CPUs. Therefore, you will need to license for […]

Remember: Mobile Devices Get Adobe & Is Subject to Software Licensing Too
Scott D. RosenbergUncategorizedLeave a Comment on Remember: Mobile Devices Get Adobe & Is Subject to Software Licensing Too

Here is an interesting news item – Microsoft has licensed Adobe Flash Lite, specifically designed for mobile devices. They have also licensed Adobe Reader LE Software for viewing web content and email attachments. For those of you following the company’s plans – they had announced earlier this month that they would be releasing a rival to the Adobe product. Interesting turn of events. What does this mean in terms of licensing? Even your mobile phones can play a part in […]

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