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When licensing Oracle programs with Standard Edition One or Standard Edition in the product name, a processor is counted equivalent to an occupied socket; however, in the case of multi-chip modules, each chip in the multi-chip module is counted as one occupied socket ... so, depending on what you're running on, a processor is either 1, 0.25, 0.50, or 0.75 processors, unless it's called Standard or Standard One and then a processor is a socket ... And if there are more than one chip on a module, then each chip counts as a processor (an “occupied” socket).

Caveats from Oracle Pricing Guide Jan 7, 2008, page 9:
For Standard Edition One or Standard Edition, a processor is an occupied socket
- Except for multi-chip modules, each chip in the module is one occupied socket
- The Xeon Quad-core shows “two occupied sockets” (2 chips in multi-chip module)

Беда (или радость) в том, что новые четырёхъядерные Xeon'ы не являются мультичиповыми. И новые 6-ядерные AMD. К сожалению, не помню, вышли ли уже новые 8-ядерные Intel'ы и какие они.

Software Investment Guide, April 3, 2007, page 11-12:
- Standard Edition may only run on servers with a maximum of 4 sockets
- Standard Edition One may only run on servers with a maximum of 2 sockets
- When licensing Oracle Standard Edition One or Standard Edition programs on servers with a maximum of 1 processor with 1 or 2 cores, only 1 processor shall be counted.

А это, видимо, просто устарело.

Ну, граждане, если никто не хочет сдерживаться, то мне придётся сделать то, что я должен делать.

Yo.!
почему ? все процитированное и сегодня валидно
Ага, ага.