A socket is a method for establishing communications links between a client program and a server program across a LAN, a WAN or the Internet, and sometimes between processes within a computer. A ...

Second, the licensing moves to a per core model. Instead of 2012's two socket license pack, 2016 will use a 2 core pack, with the license cost of each 2016 pack being 1/8th the price of the ...

I have a server with a couple dual core Xeon 5130 processors in it (a total of 4 cores). Previously I had been running VMware ESXi 4.1 free version on it with a couple virtual machines, but I ...