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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: Borderline OT - Unix for Oracle at home
Hey Dan;
I currently am running a Sun Sparc 20 at home with oracle 8.1.7.4 and am
adding 9.0.2. I got mine off of e-bay as you were talking about.
The Sun software was prety easy to load and configure so far. I have a DSL setup and its working just fine. I can even get to the DB from here at work . I am currently adding a lot of other features (like samba and a named daemon and such).
As for e-bay .... there is both good and bad. First, you get what you pay for ... sight unseen. I ended up going back to e-bay after I got my sparc 20 to pick up a different motherboard (only cost me $12.50) because my original one was bad. Plus, I went back and got extra memory and drive space as well. All in all, the cost of the workstation was around 400. Right now it has 3 processors, 500 megs memory, and about 36 gigs of drive space.
To cut it short ..... it was a good investment. Just took some time.
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Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2003 9:14 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
I am looking to add a unix box to my collection of wintel machines at home. It will be used solely for running/testing Oracle, so I don't need bells & whistles. My thoughts are either Linux/intel or Sun Ultra workstation. While it would be convenient to be able to network it into a DSL configuration, it is not essential. My original thought was a Linux desktop, but I can also get Ultra 5 or 10 workstations on ebay for less than $500.
Anyone having experience good/bad/ugly for this type of task? All tips, challenges, things to consider are greatly appreciated.
Dan Fink
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