Re: Oracle's relationships with expert DBAs (and the rest of us mere mortals)

• Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com> wrote:
  > On 5/31/06, MVE <mvetmp-ora_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
  > >What edge does Linux on a PC has over Solaris on a Sun Box?
  >
  > Adequate performance at a hugely reduced cost. Windows has this as well. As
  > a rule of thumb, yes I know!, you can now run at least a hundred concurrent
  > sessions of an erp app on hardware and software costing less than GBP4000
  > (oracle license excluded). Is it cast iron guaranteed reliable and
  > available, well no. Do you need it to be - probably not.
  > --
  > Niall Litchfield
  

If you work with shops that have less than 10K budget for hardware and don't have 99% uptime requirement there's still a better solution:

Get THREE 2 WAY E450R and one D1000 (12 x 18GB/10K discs) total cost ~ $5000K USD (from a authorized Sun dealer with 2 year warrantee)

Split it as follows:

   E450R -- WEB-FORMS tier
   E450R -- CM tier
   E450R/D1000 (12 disc) -- DB tier

You'll easily scale up to 500 concurrent users and when it's time to grow you are already on Solaris -- get new Sun BOXES, move the datafiles and the APPL_TOP - you are done in one weekend.

• Vitaliy -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l