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From: Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Is Intel exceptionally unsuccessful as an architecture
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 11:46:43 +0300
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On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 03:48:36 -0000 (UTC)
Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

> On Mon, 23 Sep 2024 21:39 +0100 (BST), John Dallman wrote:
> 
> > In article <20240923105336.0000119b@yahoo.com>,
> > already5chosen@yahoo.com (Michael S) wrote:
> >   
> >> Why # of CPU cores on die is of particular importance?  
> > 
> > Because multi-core made multi-processor systems commonplace, and far
> > more software started using multiple threads.  
> 
> Another interesting factor is that proprietary server software that
> had been licensed by number of CPUs mostly changed to licensing by
> number of CPU *sockets*.
> 

What "proprietary software" do you have in mind?
Certainly not Oracle Database EE.

> Not sure how they were strongarmed into giving up revenue like this
> ...

Big vendors no longer believe that selling (vending) software is a
sustainable business. They very much prefer leasing, now under name
SaaS.
But that's not something new.