Question:  I looked up the price of an 18 
core Xeon processor, with a clock 
speed under 3.0 GHz, and got $4000+.<p>So, why be willing to pay so much 
per core for such slow cores?<p>At first I guessed that having lots of
cores per processor would reduce the
number of processors needed and, then,
maybe for some software reduce licensing 
costs, but the IBM Power processors likely
are going to be running Linux.  So, the
goal is to reduce licensing costs for
Oracle?  Something else?  Or licensing 
costs has nothing to do with it?<p>As I plan my server farm for my startup,
what am I missing about the value of
paying $4000+ for 18 relatively slow
cores?