Re: informix market share

Serge Rielau wrote:

> *chuckle*And there always will be because SMP scales better than RAC
> (more CPUs needed) and RAC is cited as a major contributer to Linux
> licenses... it ain't free.

Of course if you also want transparent failover with that big SMP box you get to buy at least one more of them.

 From my experience only a small percentage of Oracle customers buy RAC for scalability. The vast majority for transparent failover. Want to cost it out against alternative technologies with equivalent features? Oh and without having to manually federate the data? Wouldn't want you to forget that part.

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