Re: Cheapest Oracle RAC Configuration

From: David Williams <djw_at_smooth1.fsnet.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2003 03:05:59 +0100
Message-ID: <bimcm9$ibn$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk>

"Quarkman" <quarkman_at_myrealbox.com> wrote in message news:6f2ab2f8.0308280024.6607163f_at_posting.google.com...
>
> Raj: RAC is not cheap. Period. You can't do it on the cheap, as the
> Oracle licence alone is going to set you back tens of thousands of
> dollars. Add to that interconnect redundancy, hard disk raiding and
> everything else... well, you just can't do RAC cheap.
>

What if I want to learn RAC at home? How can I ever get experience for a job if I cannot play with it at home? This is the next cool Oracle thing to learn but I need to set it up at home and I'm not paying that much. Does Oracle think we are all as rich as Larry?

Linux NBD seems the way to go..I have 400Gb of disk space.. Received on Thu Aug 28 2003 - 21:05:59 CDT