Oracle: Unbreak my Linux Heart

That same article on ZDNet.com also mentions that Oracle has begun to think about who it will structure its licensing schema for Cloud Computing (PDF). Other vendors will probably follow soon.

Last week, Oracle announced new prices for its Standard Edition products. Bottom-line? Cost is lowered upto 87% compared to the previous situation for Standard Edition and Standard Edition One running 2 or 4 CPU machines! As it turns out, prices have been lowered since Febuari 16th... thanks for telling, NOT! The move seems a responds to Microsoft's lowered prices and the arrival of multicore CPUs.