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Re: obvious bugs with 10.2.0.2 and aix5L

From: Ben <balvey_at_comcast.net>
Date: Fri, 03 Aug 2007 06:19:49 -0700
Message-ID: <1186147189.778896.182130@q75g2000hsh.googlegroups.com>


On Aug 3, 9:09 am, Steve Howard <stevedhow..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> On Aug 3, 8:40 am, Ben <bal..._at_comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > For the most part we finally got our problems worked out. We had to go
> > from 4 Cpu's to 8, but that seems to have done the trick.
> > It would be nice if there were some kind of guide ( maybe there is and
> > I haven't seen it ) as to system requirements when moving from version
> > to version. Something along the lines of how much memory and cpus are
> > needed for this size of database on this os with this many users. I
> > know it would be hard to generalize but they should at least be able
> > to tell us what the minimum requirements for a setup would be. I've
> > had a case open with Oracle for 3.5 weeks now and they finally said
> > that the increase in kernel code has just maxed out our system. I
> > guess we were floating on the edge and the upgrade was just enough to
> > push us over.
>
> You know, this kind of bothers me. Oracle's solution is to pay them
> an additional $160K per year?!!! I know you probably don't (or
> shouldn't) pay sticker price, but it's a constant in terms of
> comparison discussions between customers.
>
> I also know they aren't obligated to tune your entire app, but telling
> you to buy more CPU's for the same application when the only thing
> (apparently) that has changed is their software?!!
>
> "We may be headed down a bad road here..."

Well, in our case we don't license by cpu with oracle, ibm on the other hand we do. But yes, it is pretty ridiculous. Received on Fri Aug 03 2007 - 08:19:49 CDT

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