>>> >>>See, we're seeing a move away from shared Oracle homes. In >>>fact, the last 5-10 large organizations we were talking to >>>deployed one ORACLE_HOME for every instance on the box (and >>>most of them deployed a separate ORACLE_HOME for their >>>listener as well). So in a failover HA cluster environment (large cluster) with a lot of small to medium database (say, 60 of them), how many Oracle Homes would this take? : ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/eserver/benchmarks/wp_VMDB_BC_v05.pdf I think consolidation might start to challenge the idea that a box has a database wich has a home. Thoughts ? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l