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TmaxSoft says Tibero 6 is aimed at customers looking for a lower-cost alternative to Oracle

In the staid world of insurance companies, The Hartford is making a name for itself by lashing together 200 servers to create a powerful grid that's tackling compute-intensive financial analytics.

A new report by The 451 Group suggests that the traditional per-CPU software licensing model is throwing a wrench in widespread adoption of grid computing.

While no one disputes the extra power and performance that dual-core processors provide, there are still looming questions about what this means for enterprise software costs. Specifically, will the gains from multi-core processors be negated by additional software licensing costs?

Sun Microsystems Inc. gave a preview of its upcoming open source-based desktop suite on Wednesday