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Standart и Standart one редакции оракл теперь лицензирует по сокетам:
In addition, for all programs with Standard Edition or Standard Edition One in the program name, Oracle recognizes a socket as equivalent to a processor for the purposes of counting and licensing these programs. The number of cores on a chip in a socket does not matter when determining the number of processor licenses required for these programs.

http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/multicore_faq.pdf