Re: Where is Oracle’s Grid ?

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 07:13:58 -0800
Message-ID: <1071846748.147422@yasure>

Niall Litchfield wrote:

> "Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message
> news:1071789869.721491_at_yasure...
> <snip>
> 

>>If you believe that you don't understand RAC because with RAC you don't
>>need any Superdomes and that lesson is being dramatically driven home
>>right now by Amazon.com which has blown out all but one or two of the
>>big machines.
>>
>>RAC properly implemented means not having to purchase expensive hardware.
>>

> 
> 
> Just expensive software. $60k a processor to implement a RAC solution at
> list price. Don't give your money to Scott McNealy give it to Larry :(

Where did that price come from? The lab I worked in a week ago allowed us to implement three RAC clusters of two nodes each and all of the hardware ... right down to the cabling cost less than $12K excluding the NetApps NAS.

Configured differently ... we built a 6CPU load balanced fault tolerant cluster for $62K and storage is storage. If you need that much storage you have to buy it no matter what hardware solution you choose.

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Received on Fri Dec 19 2003 - 09:13:58 CST