Re: DB2 Crushes Oracle RAC on TPC-C benchmark

From: DA Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:33:48 -0800
Message-ID: <1107221466.972827@yasure>

Niall Litchfield wrote:

> "DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message
> news:1107202804.770313_at_yasure...
>

>>A $13.8 million dollar discount? I don't know how they can walk down the
>>street without stopping in every confessional.

>
>
> I know of an Oracle customer that has publicly referred to the goodness of
> RAC, in particular it enables them to roll out databases quickly and on
> commodity hardware to their internal client base. It saved them seven figure
> sums in hardware very quickly. Naturally they have an all encompassing site
> licence and so did not pay anything extra at all for RAC :). PR cuts both
> ways (hence I suspect Mark's facetious comments).
>
> In passingm but the vendors don't actually care so in vain, I'd really love
> to see TPCC on 4 processor intel servers with no more than say 10 SCSI disks
> and 8gb ram from IBM,DB2 and Oracle.

Maybe I'm showing my innocence here but if Mark gives away RAC licenses for free it costs Oracle one piece of 8 1/2 x 11 paper. I think of hardware as being different.

-- 
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
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