Re: DB2 vs Oracle
Date: 16 Jan 1995 19:59:52 GMT
Message-ID: <3fej7o$5ss_at_netserv.unmc.edu>
The extra $500K was for hardware. They will be dealing with 10's of millions of records with updates in the order of 2-5 million a day. I agree with you about any system would require about the same amount of room ... not sure what point IBM was trying to make about Oracle.
Michael J. Marolda (mmarolda_at_bristol.onramp.net) wrote:
: $500K eh? Well, somebody forgot to tell most of us Oracle customers
: about that. I'm running Oracle 7.1.3 on a $6k sun clone + $4K for more
: memory and a couple of 1Gb drives (I've got a total of 96Mb memory and
: 3Gb disk space) and a 4mm dat.
: Actually, your hardware requirements are going to be a function of the type
: of work you exect to perform with the database and not a function of
: the database system. The net result is that if you need $500k in hardware
: for an Oracle system, you'll probably need that much for any system you
: implement.
: btw, What did they say that $500K was for?
: Mike Marolda - mmarolda_at_onramp.net
: Onramp Productions Inc.
: http://bristol.onramp.net/
Received on Mon Jan 16 1995 - 20:59:52 CET