I would think that "2000 users" is not the same as 2000 concurrent users
- unless all your users are connected all the time. A more likely
scenario is that each user is connected 10% of the time. This would
imply an average load of 200 users or (perhaps) 400 users at peak times.
Zairina wrote:
>
> hi everybody,
>
> I am planning to build an e learning platform for a Medical University
> with users amounting to 2000. I would like to know the pros and cons
> of using Oracle 9i as opposed to IBM's DB2 or Microsoft's SQL Server.
> This is because at first I was told that Oracle 9i Database only
> limitation is it's extremely high price. Then, I found out why. For
> every processor it is installed into, it could only handle up to 100
> concurrent users only. Is this true?
>
> Then, if my applications need to cater to 1000 users, then I would
> need to buy 10 processor licences? WOW! Then it is expensive. Thus, it
> is somewhat the same to DB2 or SQLServer then.
>
> Please help. Any advice you could offer is highly appreciated.
Received on Fri Aug 17 2001 - 07:42:15 CDT
