I've had the chance to play with an ODA or two, sadly no exadata yet... (at least not the cool stuff... just imports and adding tablespaces :P). I like the appliances... I don't know whether I like them because of the fact that they are 100% dedicated hardware and most importantly storage for the database, which makes it blazing fast or whether there is actual value in the appliance. Deploy time is a lot faster, since half the stuff is already done, and it makes standardization rather easy. to be honest, if you can afford it and have a big/busy enough database, it's completely worth it. Alan.- On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 11:19 AM, Howard Latham <howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > We have spoken to Oracle sales after a long holiday and they are steering > us hard toward Oracle Appliances to reduce the multiple core's cost. Are we > safe with that route? > Howard A. Latham > > > -- > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l