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On Mon, 22 Jun 1998 17:16:43 +0500, Umar FArooq
<umar.farooq_at_cressoft.com.pk> wrote:
>Hi!
>I am working to prepare an RFP (Request For Proposal). I have to suggest
>which RDBMS to use. The choice is between Oracle and SQL Server. The
>database would be about 200 MB and the front end would be web-enabled
>being accessed simultaneously by about 50 users. A total of about 5000
Yes, 200MB today 1.5GB in three months, such is the general rule.
In addition, it's 50 Users in the first phase, 500 in the second, etc.
It's free consulting day:P
I'v seen this happen atleast 20 times. People go out, buy SQL Server and a cheap PC host, throw NT Server and IS on it, and create a demo.
3 months latter, when it the system goes into production phase II, the thing crashes since none of Microsoft's products scale worth a damm.(clustering is just a stupid solution to using to rationialize really dumb purchasing decisions).
Do this, buy Oracle and run it on a the nicest Sun box you can afford, while the initial capital outlay is more, you will save substatial amounts in incremental capital expenses when you start buying volume quntities of Wintel boxes and SQL Servers when it comes time to scale and users start complaining about how your brand new Web-based application is slower than 20 year old IBM Mainframe applications. Received on Thu Jun 25 1998 - 16:44:28 CDT