"Daniel Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message
news:1071846748.147422_at_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.
store.oracle.com EE is 40k a processor, RAC an extra 20k.
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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
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