Re: ETAGON...

Etagon invited me to come and visit them at their stand at the UKOUG conference in Birmingham next week. Don't know if I'll have time or not, but in general I'm still looking for hard evidence of financial savings using RAC, ie a real comparison where switching to RAC (on whatever platform) meant lower license costs in total. I've only seen calculations where the price of RAC was omitted or hugely discounted. I'm even willing to ignore the increase in complexity that follows from clustering and RAC'ing... One thing, though, that I will not accept, is this notion of TCO. It seems that anybody can use that thing to prove any point, so it becomes hard to compare :).

If RAC is cheaper for you than non-RAC it must be because you save the $20K per CPU somewhere else. Or?

Mogens

Gunnar Berglund wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I would like to hear, if you have any experience concering Etagon...
>
> Short review:
>
> Etagon is an Israeli company and their product is Data Center
> Automation SW focussing initially on Oracle 9i RAC clustering
> SW. Etagon claims that their SW can produce fundamental
> savings in 9i RAC installation and lifecycle management.
>
> Please see their web site; www.etagon.com <http://www.etagon.com>
>
> I'd be interested to hear if you know Etagon already and in any case
> what is your take on their value proposition. Is 9i RAC installation &
> maintenance a real pain point to you? And could Etagon SW possibly
> ease that pain?
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