Re: Any Recommendations On Oracle Server Spec, Itanium , Sun or IBM

"Niko" <nick_wakefield_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:9da94cd1.0207011138.213a414e_at_posting.google.com...
> If I start the other way, I know what I would recommend however I am
> not in the business of reinventing the wheel, going through same
> process that everyone else does time and time again and am only asking
> for an opinion from people who may or may not have used this type of
> hardware. My normal hardware would be something like IBM S85's or 5K
> dev servers. Speccing 50K boxes is something I don't tend to do and
> would like to leverage some of the expertise on this group.
>
> TIA
Sorry, I didn't mean to sound disparaging. What I meant was that IMHO the best way to go about this exercise is to do the arithmetic. Work out the volume of data, likely growth, number of users, likely growth in users and so forth.
I don't think this is reinventing the wheel, because every wheel differs. This should give you an idea how much disk space, memory and CPU you need, and should give you some basis upon which you can specify the hardware. At that stage, if there's a problem vs. the budget, start to review and discuss the options.

I hope this helps.

Regards,
Paul Received on Mon Jul 01 2002 - 16:21:12 CDT