Turbulence in per CPU pricing not over yet

Summary: Microsoft has raised the stakes on the total cost of ownership (TCO) front by counting chips instead of cores when comes to how it licenses its software.

By David Berlind for Between the Lines | October 19, 2004 -- 11:21 GMT (04:21 PDT)

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Microsoft has raised the stakes on the total cost of ownership (TCO) front by counting chips instead of cores when comes to how it licenses its software.

Topic: Processors

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