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Re:Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Ch... by lulmerchant on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @04:01PM (#16065100)
All the Oracle DBAs out there are in for some suffering. Forget the cost of 30% extra compute, what about the 30% increase to Oracle licensing?
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Re:Intel Confronts Potential ‘PR Nightmare’ With Reported Ch... by paulmd on Wednesday January 03, 2018 @04:18PM (#16065257)
"SPARC user: not affected!"

--Oracle's marketing tomorrow, probably

(to their credit, SPARC does fully isolate kernel and user memory pages, so they were ahead of the curve here... for all 10 of their users who run anything other than Oracle DB on their systems.)

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