Re: tough choices

From: Mark A <nobody_at_switchboard.net>
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 03:28:10 -0600
Message-ID: <mYSBc.1$7e3.443@news.uswest.net>

"Mark Townsend" <markbtownsend_at_comcast.net> wrote in message news:VVNBc.157111$Ly.81952_at_attbi_s01...
> A couple of things should be pointed out with this comparison
>
> 1) You are comparing IBM's workgroup server unlimited edition ( IBM DB2
> WUSE, limited to 4 CPUs and 32 bits, targeted at small web serving
> environments) with Oracle's Enterprise Edition. A better
> apples-to-apples comparison would be IBM's workgroup server unlimited
> edition pricing, with Oracle's Standard Edition One (limited to 2 CPUs)
> or Standard Edition (limited to 4 CPUs, inlcuding RAC support for up to
> 4 CPUs in a cluster).
>
> Comparative based prices are then
>
> Oracle SE1 4995 per CPU
> IBM DB2 WUSE 7500 per CPU
> Oracle SE 15000 per CPU (includes RAC)
>

DB2 Workgroup Server Unlimited Edition is not needed. If there are a lot of users at one time, you don't want each web user to have their own connection into DB2 with only 4 processors. Connection pooling can be used with a reasonable number of simultaneous users.

With connection pooling, a user might have to wait until another DB2 process has finished, but they would be waiting on resources anyway (disk, CPU etc) if everyone tried to run exactly at the same time. Received on Tue Jun 22 2004 - 04:28:10 CDT