You weren't at my OW presentation, were you ? It may be a co-incidence - but I did do a sneak preview of Oracle 11! with the HAL module installed. Regards Jonathan Lewis http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/ind_faq.html The Co-operative Oracle Users' FAQ http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/seminar.html Optimising Oracle Seminar - schedule updated Sept 19th ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gogala, Mladen" <MGogala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 5:12 PM Subject: RE: Storage array advice anyone? Comments inline -- Mladen Gogala Ext. 121 -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Zito [mailto:mzito@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, December 17, 2004 11:54 AM To: JHostetter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Cc: Oracle-L Subject: Re: Storage array advice anyone? Larry's vision is one big database, one big application instance, running on hundreds of small commodity servers with redundancy implemented in software, resulting in a very low cost but very high maintenance. [Mladen Gogala] And that, my friend, is great as long as I'm well paid to do the maintenance. I essentially agree with you, only I would use a little bit different wording. Larry wants to create the software for HAL 9000. And every HAL needs its Dave Bowman or weird things can happen. It's full of stars.... -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l