Re: Oracle costs and requirements

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 26 Nov 2005 20:17:53 +0100
Message-ID: <dmabqc$9t5$1@news3.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>

DA Morgan wrote:
> Frank van Bortel wrote:
>

>> DA Morgan wrote:
>>
>>> Matt Bailey wrote:
>>>

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>>>>
>>>> Well, ideally I'd like to make it as realistic an estimate as
>>>> possible, so I'll do some further investigating, but failing that,
>>>> this looks like a good option!
>>>>
>>>> Matt
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I still question your professor's sanity unless you have 3 months or
>>> more to do this. But have a whack at it and don't forget to purchase
>>> a maintenance agreement on your hardware.
>>
>>
>>
>> I could run it in service.

>
>
> And if he contacted an ASP, such as bluegecko.net, they would provide
> the hardware, the DBA, the SysAdmin, etc. for just a few thousand a
> month making the entire process of researching the paper basically a
> single email. But then, while fulfilling his professor's request with
> precision ... would likely get a really bad grade.

Realistically, I'd outsource it, or I'd run it on XE/Linux, or XE/Windows, depending on what the shop already has (Windows or Unix expertise).

The shop is small, and the data demand is small. A server would be any Intel based machine (less than 500 Euro), preferably with some kind of storage box (RAID/JBOD) attached, cost: approx 1500 Euro (RAID0/1/5; 4*450MB drives)

As this is a new design/application, I'd make it web enabled. JDeveloper, and HTMLDB come to mind; JDeveloper if you insist on J2EE/JSF/ADF (which really boosts your development performance!), but probably requires an extra machine as web- and applicationserver. If you keep the amount of hits small (1 million hits/month or less); HTMLDB will do. Adding two tables and three screens will be a matter of days; two, three at the most. HTMLDB is really easy, but delivers pure HTML - maybe not sexy enough for a chain of Fitness centres.

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Regards,
Frank van Bortel

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Received on Sat Nov 26 2005 - 13:17:53 CST