RE: [new info] Redhat Advanced Server Dev Edition - RAC

I don't know anyone who needs it but Oracle is behind it and that means that sooner or later they'll start to shift licenses. I'd be foolish to ignore the chance to experiment with RAC at home for £150 (I had a lot of the kit already) rather than pay Oracle £1158 for a 3 day RAC course (plus the loss of 3 days income).
Add on to that the amount I've learned about the linux kernel and the fact that frankly a firewire disk is just generally useful to have around (backups/temporary storage for video or music) and I think I'd be a mug to do otherwise.

So no, I don't work for a company that needs this but in the near future I may.

Cheers,
Mike

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Sent: 11 February 2003 16:30
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This is all cool technology, and fun stuff to play with.

It all begs the questions,

"How many of us work for a business that actually need this?"

"Are they willing to pay $400/user $20k/CPU above the cost
of Oracle 9i EE to use it?"

"Are they willing to pay the extra overhead required to maintain it?"

I'm not sure the ROI is there for many of us. Though downtime at our business is somewhat expensive, I think that a failover system or even standby database will provide adequate coverage for us, which is indeed a hot topic here right now, after our Dell SAN put us out of business for 36 hours.

RAC wouldn't have helped much there. Niether would a cluster for that matter. Standby DB would have been perfect.

This whole push of RAC by Oracle reminds me very much of the mlife phone campaign by ATT. Do you really need to take pictures with your phone? And what is the point of sending text messages to someone elses phone when you could just call them?

ATT needs you to buy this stuff, because they have it for sale.

I see RAC in a similar light. Do you need RAC? Oracle needs you to 'need' it, because they need some reason for you to spend more money on their product.

Jared

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