[Progress Communities] [Progress OpenEdge ABL] Forum Post: RE: About CPU core licensing and hyperthreading in a virtualized environment

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Ah licensing, the dark side of the Force. The EULA says: “Core”: A Core is a core processor of a CPU as allocated by Licensee made up of an independent processor combined onto a single integrated circuit or silicon chip, in both virtualized and/or non-virtualized environment, and regardless of whether used in a production or non-production (e.g. test, development) environment. Which I interpret as hyper-threading doesn't count. It doesn't matter if your VM runs on 2 vCPU's, if your machine has 6 cores you pay for 6 cores. Disclaimer: I'm not a lawyer :-)

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