Driven by business, meaning how much are they willing to pay -- if it's important enough to them they'll pay for it... Thanks! ________________________________ From: Carel-Jan Engel [mailto:cjpengel.dbalert@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, June 02, 2005 3:19 PM To: Khemmanivanh, Somckit Cc: Jared Still; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Oracle RAC cost justification? That looks like a nice environment you live in. Most of the times I see a lot of problems to get requirements specified by the business, apart from the 99.999 availability at, let's say' 10% extra cost...... On Fri, 2005-06-03 at 00:10, Khemmanivanh, Somckit wrote: I'm really not interested in arguing anymore about what constitutes HA...Most of the time the level of HA required is driven by business requirements anyway... Best regards, Carel-Jan Engel === If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok) === -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l