I am designing a new data warehouse and will be using Discoverer and Portals on the Apps server/middle tier. My sys admin wants to purchase the new HP RP7420 for production. He wants to purchase one server for both the apps server and the database server instead of separate servers for each app server and database. He says he can partition the server to make it look like 2 separate servers. Can anyone offer me some advice if this is a good idea or not? My gut felling is to stick with separate servers but I know technology and industry standard architecture changes. Thanks in advance! Val Valerie H. Webber Valspar Corporation 7930 W. Kenton Circle Huntersville, NC 28078 800-241-4568 ext. 6313 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------