Re: Large databases

In article <9309171424.AA11176_at_bravo> kfulton_at_mgrm.com (Keith Fulton) writes:
>I've got a friend thinking about downsizing an enormous
>application from a 3090 to a Unix box, and he's thinking
>about using Oracle. I want to get y'all's reaction to
>this. etc...
>

We have been working for several months on >50 Gbyte benchmarks, which use Parallel (Version 7) Oracle and our own (Meiko) Massively Parallel SPARC machine. This seems a practical propostion, and there should be a 125 Gbyte customer machine installed fairly soon. We have few smaller machines (<35 Gbyte) which have settled in fairly well in production roles.

These are all pretty teeny compared to our scientific machines (i.e. 10 vs 256 SPARCs). Downsizing; schmownsizing... how about upsizing ?

Patrick Evans,
pje_at_meiko.com Received on Tue Sep 21 1993 - 17:33:32 CEST