RE: Database for WebSphere5

From: Hubler, Daniel <daniel.hubler_at_cobalt-corp.com>
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 09:58:19 -0600
Message-ID: <E8938AD47289D311A49600508B5BEA923305C797@WALLY>

I have lived through this same experience. If you do not have DB2 expertise in house, it can be a real pain.

We went to our Oracle sales rep and talked him into Allowing us to run Oracle as the database for Websphere, at little or no cost.

I think they used the argument that:
A) I can get the DB2 for free
B) if they don't allow it, I will be installing another vendor database in our shop

Good luck.

-----Original Message-----

From: Peter Barnett [mailto:regdba_at_yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, March 23, 2004 9:19 AM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Database for WebSphere5

We just upgraded to WebSphere5. During user acceptance testing I discovered that the WAS schema has exactly TWO tables. Investigating further, I found out that these two tables are dynamic. When someone logs in these tables are populated and when the user logs out the data is deleted.

Out of the box, WAS will install a default DB2 database on the same server as the application server. Even though I am an Oracle bigot, it seems silly to pay for cpu licensing for two small tables. I am leaning toward asking our middle-ware administrators to use the default install and save the cpu licensing expense for Oracle.

Does anyone have any experience with this configuration? Especially, hidden gotchas, like DB2 cpu licensing?

Pete Barnett
Lead Database Administrator
The Regence Group
pnbarne_at_regence.com

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