Re: Tough question for oracle DBAs/Solaris Admins. Log shipping.

On Tue, 5 Sep 2006, jKILLSPAM.schipper_at_math.uu.nl wrote:

> Nice. Not necessarily useful, but thoroughly nice.

Heh, I take it you've not done much enterprise class computing. :-)

In an environment where downtime is not only inconvenient, it is also extremely expensive, hot swappable CPUs are not only useful, they're almost a requirement.

The thought of incurring hundreds of thousands of dollars of costs due to downtime "just" to replace a CPU is not very paletable in those enterprise environments. The same also applies for upgrades: the ability to add CPU/memory resources to a running system can also save huge amounts of cash.

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