I think you have understood it very well, and summarized it well, too :-). True, RAC comes free with Standard Edition, but then other issues with RMAN and clusters and SE arise. It's good to be a consulting company. So I would like to add to your list: Your consulting cost will increase. Mogens Freeman, Donald wrote: > One thing to do is check the archives for this forum. There have been a = > lot of discussions about RAC. I'm a bit glum about it. I'm pretty new = > as an Oracle DBA and we have already installed RAC on our transactional = > system and have allocated money for our datawarehouse. At the time I = > didn't know enough to influence those decisions. I have observed that = > the transactional dba's have had some trouble keeping both nodes up when = > they were supposed to be up. > > What I have extracted out of the conversations here is that your = > management problems will increase, your cost will increase, your = > performance will decrease. You should gain some increased = > availability. If I didn't summarize that right somebody should correct = > me.=20 ---------------------------------------------------------------- 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 -----------------------------------------------------------------