Re: Win2000 question

If the price of Solaris is painful how then do you pay the Oracle license? I found it much more painful than any hardware. Example: I asked a sales rep here in Germany and he told me that a single processor Pentium II 400 MHz with Enterprise Edition and Spatial Option for Linux costs about 15 K$ for Internet access! This is a really weak system! For a dual 50-MHz Solaris box the price would have been 7.5 K$.

Martin

Dave wrote:
>
> Giorgio Sorbara <NoSp_at_m> wrote in message
> news:3aa63c76$0$16692$73bec57d_at_news.be.uu.net...
> >
> > Hi there...
> >
> > yes i do have installed a production database on a Win2k OS.
> > IMHO it runs pretty well... well you can't compare to Solaris
> > but it's not that bad at all.
>
> That's great. Yeah, I know 'nothing' compares to the stability of Solaris,
> and I know that Oracle is Unix based....but hell, the price is painful. : )
>
> > I have not any problem reported so far...the machine was
> > installed in october 2000 and believe me or not didn't have
> > any downtime yet but for a UPS that didn't work after a power
> > outage.
>
> Yeah, that does tend to cause problems, having a lack of power and all. I
> hope nothing was damaged.
>
> > However I strongly suggest you to use server hardware...
> > (Scsi/Raid).
>
> That's very helpful, I was actually wondering how important those were. Any
> chance you could explain to me exactly what RAID is? I don't really
> understand it. (Can you tell? I'm not a server-type I.T. guy...I'm flying
> by the seat of my pants, and this NG). : )
>
> > If you want a cheap solution and you don't want to spend money
> > for Solaris... the other choice is obvious ;)
>
> The 'other choice' is ALWAYS Microsoft. Damn Gates, you just can't escape
> him. He's almost as annoying as taxes!
>
> > Giorgio
>
> Anyways, thanks a lot! I really wanted opinions/comments from someone who
> has actually worked with an NT/2000 based Oracle database. It's very
> informative from a 'been there, done that' perspective. Much appreciated!
Received on Tue Mar 13 2001 - 02:55:18 CST