Re: Oracle 9i RAC vs Hardware clustering (like HACMP)

DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1098422612.755320_at_yasure>...
> I specifically stated that you would still need to pay Oracle for RAC in
> what I wrote. There is, however, no need to pay IBM or anyone else for
> clusterware. And I was, of course, referring to 10g.

In Oracle 10g this is indeed true, but I wrote "but not everyone wants to move to 10G yet", so my post was written from 9i perspective. Oracle 10g is still quite fresh (just after first patchset) and not everyone likes to be an early adopter.

> BTW: I don't know anyone that has actually ever been fool enough to pay
> $20K USD for RAC. But I guess there are people that don't know better.

I used the catalog price, of course there could be large discounts.

> You can do better than 50% off for passive nodes ... if in standby mode
> you can do it for free: Read your license agreement.

The problem is that the license agreement is valid only in the US and for the Oracle's local branches it is not binding. Strange but true. :-(

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