> year require another 20 databases. On the Unix side of the house, we > lease large servers and run upwards of 10 databases on the machines. > That can't be done on the Intel platform. Why not? Admittedly it is not as clean as doing it on *nix, but I see no reason for not being able to run 10 databases on Win32. > development using RedHat ES 3, which means Intel hardware. Blade servers > are hot and they want me to look at using blades and or VMware. We would > be running dedicated fiber to our EMC for each blade. You're right, they are hot. We've not used them here, but I've read comments by those that have. They generate a *lot* of heat. Make sure your data center can deal with it. They also share a backplane. Here's a good link detailing some issues. http://technologyreports.net/enterpriseinnovator/?articleID=1891 If you have a subscription to Gartner, you should investigate there. Try using teoma.com or vivisimo.com rather than Google. Many of the hits from Google are vendors. They of course have nothing but good news about blade servers. HTH Jared ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------