Re: Larry Ellison comments on Microsoft's benchmark

 How can a single disk-subsystem be 12 times more reliable than 12 disk subsystems? A logical or physical  corruption here is going to affect all OPS nodes.  

 (Taking the case where data can be partitioned and losing one node in a cluster does NOT lose you access  to all the data)  

 > In Oracle Parallel Server, a configuration that uses 12 machines is
> 12 times MORE reliable than a configuration that only uses one machine.
> However it should be noted that the disk is still a single point of
> failure. But this is still 12 times more reliable than an IBM or
> Microsoft configuration consisting of 12 machines.

 Neil Pike MVP/MCSE. Protech Computing Ltd  (Please reply only to newsgroups)
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