>I agree. Oracle, DB2, SQL Server, Sybase and the rest are in the process of getting blind-sided. Oracle especially, since they have a large market share and pinned their license fees to the speed of the CPU on which Oracle is installed - a really greedy, greedy policy.

Hmmm... I thought I read somewhere that they changed their mind on this since they were getting too much heat about it. They still charge per CPU like everyone else though.