Re: Oracle's relationships with expert DBAs (and the rest of us mere mortals)

  • From: MVE <mvetmp-ora@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>, mvetmp-ora@xxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 14:35:47 -0700 (PDT)

--- Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 5/31/06, MVE <mvetmp-ora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >What edge does Linux on a PC has over Solaris on a Sun Box?
> 
> Adequate performance at a hugely reduced cost. Windows has this as well. As
> a rule of thumb, yes I know!, you can now run at least a hundred concurrent
> sessions of an erp app on hardware and software costing less than GBP4000
> (oracle license excluded).  Is it cast iron guaranteed reliable and
> available, well no. Do you need it to be - probably not.
> -- 
> Niall Litchfield

If you work with shops that have less than 10K budget for hardware and don't
have 99% uptime requirement there's still a better solution:

Get THREE 2 WAY E450R and one D1000 (12 x 18GB/10K discs) total cost ~ $5000K
USD (from a authorized Sun dealer with 2 year warrantee)

Split it as follows:

   E450R -- WEB-FORMS tier
   E450R -- CM tier
   E450R/D1000 (12 disc) -- DB tier

You'll easily scale up to 500 concurrent users and when it's time to grow you
are already on Solaris -- get new Sun BOXES, move the datafiles and the
APPL_TOP - you are done in one weekend.

- Vitaliy
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