Re: 10g with HACMP (no RAC)?

On Sep 9, 5:45 pm, Palooka <nob..._at_nowhere.com> wrote:
> joel garry wrote:
> > On Sep 8, 3:51 pm, Palooka <nob..._at_nowhere.com> wrote:
> >> So the client decides on an application, and we are brought in as
> >> integrators for a fee of around £2m. We are supposed to turn this down,
> >> are we, because the client may not have made the best choice?
>
> >> As I said, some of us live in the real world.
>
> >> Palooka
>
> > £2m to bring in someone who asks for a cookbook???  And RAC is too
> > expensive?  I tend to come down on the side of "real world," but that
> > just seems an alternate universe.
>
> > I don't know if I should say I'm in the wrong business or be glad I'm
> > not in the right business.  Sybrand seems to be understating the
> > case.
>
> No, I am a reasonably competent DBA, but without experience of HACMP. I
> have been tasked with implementing the chosen solution in an IBM shop,
> which is why I requested some guidance, and which some posters were kind
> enough to provide.
>

Apologies, my rant is with the management that created your issues. It appears to have all the red flags of a project doomed to failure. One time I signed on as a contractor to implement one installation of such a multi$M project, and wound up supporting the successful one that was hacked out by a couple of guys. The IBM box gathered dust in the warehouse.

jg

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