Insights Into Oracle Software Licensing

November 2008 Issue 36

In This Issue

Oracle's Multi-Core Factor in Licensing

Audit Trails: Check Out Our Blog

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Miro in the Media: Take Steps to Head Off An Audit

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Oracle's Multi-Core Factor in Licensing multi core licensing

It is conventional knowledge that in the world of Oracle licensing, one license is needed per processor, but multi-core processors are a different animal. Multi-core processor licensing costs have to do with the number of cores multiplied by Oracle's defined multi-core factor. For example, the IBM AIX (a.k.a. RISC) system has 4-eight core processors, which means that it requires 24 Oracle licenses based on Oracle's "multi-core factor", which is 0.75 for the IBM AIX system.

In this case the formula for determining that 24 Oracle licenses are needed is 4*8*0.75 = 24

The multi-core factor is as follows:

0.25 for SUN's UltraSparc T1 processors
0.50 for Intel and AMD processors
0.75 for SUN's UltraSparc T2 processors
0.75 for all other multi-core processors
1.00 for single-core processors

Audit Trails Blog

Check out our blog - Audit Trails - for news, information and quick tips on both Oracle and Microsoft licensing. Our main mission is to share information on software licensing, compliance, copyright issues and audits from around the world.

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Miro in the Media: Entrepreneur Magazine-November 2008

All Well and Good

A healthy workplace means keeping your employees' minds and bodies happy

http://www.entrepreneur.com/magazine/entrepreneur/2008/november/198006.html

Miro Consulting's CEO & Founder Scott D. Rosenberg talked about how the company encourages his team to be fit in mind and body.

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Awards and Honors

Miro Consulting and its executives are an award-winning team. The company and its CEO & Founder Scott D. Rosenberg and President Eliot Arlo Colon have been honored as the fastest growing company, best management team and the like. Here are some select awards and honors bestowed upon Miro in the last year alone.

Ernst & Young

Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 NJ

50 Fastest Growth Companies in NJ

About Miro Consulting, Inc.

Miro Consulting helps companies analyze and negotiate enterprise software contracts - specifically Microsoft and Oracle licensing. In addition, the company offers software asset management consultation services. Since 2000, the NJ-based company has negotiated over $1 billion in software licensing transactions. Miro has helped 400+ clients throughout North America to optimize their total cost of ownership (TCO).

Miro Consulting, Inc.

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