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April 25, 2005
Dual Core CPU's and Software Pricing
Here's a problem they didn't think of. How are software vendors going to charge "per CPU" when each CPU has multiple cores?
It seems as though the new dual-core CPU’s from AMD and Intel are causing a little bit of confusion for business software users. Some databases and financial software charge by the CPU core, meaning that some businesses may end up paying twice as much to run a program, even though it isn’t running twice as fast. Interesting problem. Lets see how these vendors get themselves out of this one. Obviously, Open Source doesn’t suffer...
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Posted on April 25, 2005 10:33 PM by busine255.
Filed in Office Max! under business software.
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