I disagree. Your storage vendor can certainly be relied on to give you an accurate prediction of your storage requirements for the next 5 years or so. Jared On 8/26/05, Gogala, Mladen <MGogala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > What I was trying to tell you is that the goal of your project can be > qualified as BS. You are trying to predict the future based on number > > of transactions, instead of the historical growth information, like > everybody else. That will not work. Allow me to jovially suggest coin > > toss, tea leaves, position of the stars or entrails of Oracle sales people > as the next best methods. > The only reliable extrapolation is linear approximation, based on > historical > data. Even this gives you only short time reliability. Everything else is > BS. > > -- > Mladen Gogala > Ext. 121 > -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist