Oracle virtualization licensing, pricing still prohibitive

Oracle is packaging its Siebel CRM as a virtual appliance and offering a free tool for building custom templates, but analysts and systems administrators say its virtualization licensing and pricing is still prohibitive. That's because Oracle licenses its applications on a per-physical-processor basis.

Find out more about the news in this edition of This Week in Virtualization. You'll also hear from technology journalist Todd R. Weiss, author of "Is the sky falling on VMware?"

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