Re: 8i Server Standard Edition Scale beyond 4 processors?

i researched this one and couldn't find a clear answer. the sales people are crooks and i wouldn't be surprise if no one tells you. we bought the standard for our e450, it is a good price point. from my research the standard license only goes up to a e450 with 4 procs.

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000,
Mike Ross wrote:

> ORACLE has recomended that we buy 8i ENTERPRISE EDITION for UNIX boxes
> with > 4 processors instead of STANDARD EDITION.
>
> I'm unclear from discusions with ORACLE the precise reason.
>
> Is it because STANDARD EDITION doesn't scale well beyond 4 processors
> OR
> They feel that a database on a box with > 4 processors will need to take
> advantage of the additonal features of 8i - for example bit map indexes,
> parallel query, etc..
>
> My initial impression was that ENTERPRISE EDITION (EE) and STANDARD
> EDITION were identical except for the additonal EE features detailed in
> the ORACLE white paper "ORACLE 8i: A Family of Database Products".
>
> My specific related questions are:
> Is the database engine the same on ENTERPRISE EDITION and STANDARD
> EDITION?
>
> Does STANDARD EDITION scale beyond 4 processors?
>
> If we buy ENTERPRISE EDITION for a 6 processor box and do not implement
> any of EE's additonal features, are we wasting our money?
>
> Thanks for any help
> mross_at_dca.net
>
>
Received on Tue Feb 01 2000 - 20:01:57 CST