Thanks to Pedro for helping me out. The Oracle MultiCore FAQ and the ppt that I referenced are both available here: http://www.esnips.com/web/ora-docs Hope these help. Derek M. Rodner Director, Marketing EnterpriseDB Corporation 732.331.1333 office 484.252.1943 cell www.enterprisedb.com -----Original Message----- From: Niall Litchfield [mailto:niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 2:03 PM To: Derek Rodner; Brandon.Allen@xxxxxxxxxxx; jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; jhthomp@xxxxxxxxx; oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Oracle out the door 2x dual quad cores and a San/NAS. Tiny. On 30/04/2008, Derek Rodner <derek.rodner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Right, but SE is maxxed out at 4 procs, so it will be a very small RAC > configuration. > > > > Am I able to attach files to emails on this list? (just curious) > > > > Derek M. Rodner > > Director, Marketing > > EnterpriseDB Corporation > > 732.331.1333 office > > 484.252.1943 cell > > www.enterprisedb.com > > ________________________________ > > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Allen, Brandon > Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2008 12:53 PM > To: jeremy.schneider@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx; jhthomp@xxxxxxxxx; > oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: RE: Oracle out the door > > > > I believe RAC is included with SE in 10g+, at least according to page 3 > of this doc > http://www.oracle.com/corporate/pricing/databaselicensing.pdf: > > > > "Effective with the release of 10g, the Oracle Database Standard Edition > product includes the Real Applications Clusters database option." > > > > Extra maintenance costs are a different story - I've never run RAC so > can't comment on that. > > > > Regards, > > Brandon > > > > ________________________________ > > From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeremy Schneider > > > > I can't imagine that you need to be paying those extra tens of > thousands of dollars for RAC; won't the extra licensing and maintenance > costs of RAC come out about the same as those three servers your > eliminating? > > Privileged/Confidential Information may be contained in this message or > attachments hereto. Please advise immediately if you or your employer do > not consent to Internet email for messages of this kind. Opinions, > conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to > the official business of this company shall be understood as neither > given nor endorsed by it. > > -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l