Re: Alpha server

Well, I couldn't recommend such a configuration because of absurd Oracle licensing procedures. You need a user license for EACH processor. On Enterprise Server the license fee is $1,495 per user per processor, minimum 8 users per processor. So, a 14 processor Alpha STARTS with Oracle licensing of $167,440 (8x14x$1,495). I suspect that even the sales people don't fully understand this, because I am told that such a configuration is still an 8-user license, which is absurd. I read it as a 112-user license. Of course, if you don't have that many users, then this is rather costly. I have basically 4 really heavy users on a multi-processor Alpha, and the licensing costs are convincing me to take a better look at SQLServer 7.

Rog

JRStern wrote in message <35731672.14138720_at_news1.occa.home.net>...
>I see that Alpha servers come with up to fourteen processors, up to
>56gb of RAM. I'd like to hear from anyone who has an Oracle-based
>production system on a large-ish Alpha server, say four processors and
>2gb of RAM and upwards.
>
>In particular, does your experience lead you to recommend such a
>configuration, have you ever added more processors and seen good
>improvement, and what kind of network traffic do you have, coming and
>going, into such a large box -- multiple 100mhz, gigabit???
>
>Thanks in advance.
>
>Joshua Stern
>JRStern_at_primalsys.com
>
Received on Mon Jun 01 1998 - 19:18:45 CDT