Oracle DB needs much CPU time?

Hi there,

   I am new to the oracle database. I have some naive questions here.

   Before we purchase and install the Oracle Database, we would like to know whether it requires much CPU time or not.

   Currently we are using the Sun Sparc 10 machine with SunOS 4.1 and this machine also maintains about 200 mail accounts and one Web server. Thus, if we install the Oracle database on our machine, will this machine crash after starting oracle processes? This machine has 64MB RAM.    In addition, do we need a database manager to maintain the oracle database? Is it easy to handle the database system by some programmer (with Mini-SQL experience) without much knowledge on oracle database.

   Any one could give me some comments? Thank you.

Rich Tsui
Center for Biomedical Informatics
University of Pittsburgh Received on Fri Nov 15 1996 - 00:00:00 CET