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Re: Where is Oracle’s Grid ?

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Dec 2003 14:59:37 -0800
Message-ID: <1072479484.193760@yasure>


Niall Litchfield wrote:

> "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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I'm not debating that Larry gets his Pound of flesh. And the Franks, Dollars, and Deutchmarks. But the comment above related to Scott McNealy ... and that was pointed at the hardware side.

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