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The Inquirer is reporting today that Microsoft won't penalize its customers for using dual-core processors with its software.

With dual-core, and multi-core chips in the future, the potential is certainly there to reduce Microsoft's income from licensing. What user would buy a dual-chip Opteron server and pay extra for licences when he could buy a dual-core single chip server and pay for just one licence? Who will buy an 8-way system when 2 quad-core chips will do? Microsoft can kiss goodbye to that valuable licensing cash.

You can read the remainder of the article over here.

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#32366 Posted on: 10/20/2004 03:50 AM woot for MS... but in case oracle, ibm, peoplesoft, et al. dont adopt the same pricing plan, i really doubt that anyone with an existing installation will jump ship to the sql side. its attractive to the freshly christened 'enterprise-class client', but thats about it.

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