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Re: Oracle RAC cost justification?

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 21:39:38 +0100
Message-ID: <7765c89705060213397596d63b@mail.gmail.com>


Hi Tim
 On 6/2/05, Tim Gorman <tim_at_evdbt.com> wrote:  

> Instead of arguing about whether RAC is good at scalability or HA or
> cost-effectiveness, how about citing specifics?
>
> Q1 - RAC and HA:
>
> - What does RAC do better than any other possible solution (i.e. OS
> clustering, DataGuard, volume replication, etc)? How and why?
> - What other solutions are better than RAC at HA and why?
 I'd argue that any solution that breaks the single location, single database requirement of RAC will give better HA.  Q2 - RAC and scalability:

Q3 - RAC and cost-effectiveness:

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