DA Morgan wrote:
> Serge Rielau wrote:
>> DA Morgan wrote:
>>
>>> Last production RAC cluster I built ... 10 nodes, 20 CPUs was done,
>>> including storage for under $100K US including 3 year support agreement,
>>> rail kits, everything. Get us the comparison price for two (because you
>>> need one for failover) 20 CPU boxes from the vendor of your choice.
>>
>> $5K US/CPU for hardware + Oracle RAC + 3 year support.
>
> Hardware and operating system and SAN and fibre switches. Obviously
> not the RAC licenses. But those add about $200K which still put us at
> a fraction of the cost of 2 x 20 CPU boxes.
Thanks for the clarification.
It wouldn't hurt your reputation to not forget about 2/3 of the price of
the _system_ especially when you accuse me of doing marketing.
Cheers
Serge
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Serge Rielau
DB2 Solutions Development
IBM Toronto Lab
Received on Wed Mar 01 2006 - 07:31:09 CST
