RE: [cobalt-users] Oracle 8i on a RAQ3i

["Darnell Gadberry" <darnell@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Colin,

In a DB application Disk performance is everything!

Assuming you wanted to run Oracle 8i enterprise on a 300 Mhz RaQ, the
license fees for web deployment are as follows:

	2 year	$10,500
	4 year	$18,000
	Perpetual	$30,000

Factor in another 15% to 24% per year for Oracle support and it become
obvious that the acquisition cost for the server is pretty trivial. Don't
forget to add the Oracle DBA at $70K per year.

You can read the gory details at: http://store.oracle.com . They accept
Amex, Visa and MasterCard!

- darnell

-----Original Message-----
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Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Oracle 8i on a RAQ3i


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Darnell Gadberry [mailto:darnell@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 23 June 2000 06:33
> To: cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [cobalt-users] Oracle 8i on a RAQ3i
>
>
> Eric,
>
> You will be INCREDIBLY disappointed with the performance of
> Oracle 8i on the
> RaQ. We use 8i extensively (and lots of RaQs as utility

Other than disk I/O performance on the RAQs (being ATA based), I wouldn't
see why. Give it enough RAM and it should hardly have to touch disk.
However, I agree with the sentiment. Cobalt boxes, are decidedly low cost
boxes and this is no bad thing as far as I'm concerned but Oracle is a
decidedly high cost DB engine.

It just doesn't make sense to spend a fortune on $20,000 of Oracle licensing
and then stick it on low end $2,000 hardware. As the bloke says, go for a
lower end db system like MySQL or PostgreSQL or a higher end server box.



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