Xref: alice comp.databases.oracle:76950 comp.databases.oracle.misc:50276 Path: alice!news-feed.fnsi.net!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.mathworks.com!cyclone.swbell.net!nnrp1.rcsntx.swbell.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "spencer" Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle,comp.databases.oracle.misc References: Subject: Re: Oracle 8i Standard Edition vs Enterprise Edition for Linux Lines: 17 X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Message-ID: Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 21:02:34 -0600 X-Complaints-To: abuse@swbell.net X-Trace: nnrp1.rcsntx.swbell.net 946782160 216.63.51.55 (Sat, 01 Jan 2000 21:02:40 CST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 21:02:40 CST Organization: SBC Internet Services if you are running multiple machines, each with its own instance of oracle, then you are going to have multiple databases to keep in sync, which is going to require drive space for each copy of the database, and each database will have to be administered individually, which may end up being a really big headache. be aware that oracle only licenses "standard edition" on a limited set of hardware configurations. are you really needing two machines to handle the workload ? why not consider a more powerful SMP machine with plenty of memory and fault tolerant features like redundant power supplies, hardware drive mirroring, and hot-swappable hard drives ?