The X Factor: Is Memory-Based Software Pricing the Answer?
July 10, 2006 Timothy Prickett Morgan
A year and a half ago, the IT industry was just beginning to come to the realization that the advent of multiple cores on processor chips was going to wreak havoc on software pricing. Since that time, vendors have been wrestling with how to price software on products where more and more processing elements, virtual threads, and even whole virtualized machines are zooming around dynamically inside of a single physical machine. But the answer might have been there all along: The 1s and 0s of main memory. Dual-core processors and hyperthreads (which are virtual threads that make a single processor |