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Re: Where is Oracle’s Grid ?

From: Joel Garry <joel-garry_at_home.com>
Date: 31 Dec 2003 11:26:00 -0800
Message-ID: <91884734.0312311126.158ccad7@posting.google.com>


Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1072479383.579753_at_yasure>...
> Joel Garry wrote:
>
> >>RAC properly implemented means not having to purchase expensive hardware.
> >
> >
> > Actually I don't understand. And I do need to explain to people why,
> > so if there is a good reference, let me know. As it is, I cannot
> > explain to people who don't see a need to scale why they should bother
> > with a small Oracle system, which requires multiple boxes. Say, 50
> > users doing ordinary business stuff, is small.
> >
> > jg
> > --
> > @home.com is bogus.
> > http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/uniontrib/fri/business/news_1b19spam.html
>
> Get a copy of Mike Ault's book ORacle9i RAC.
>
> Or contact the Puget Sound Oracle Users Group about the next RAC class.

Why should I bother? Read Mogen's Select article http://www.ioug.org/client_files/tech/12231.pdf about why you don't need RAC. And grid: http://www.ioug.org/tech/10g.cfm says "Oracle defines grid computing as the coordinated use of many small servers acting as one computer." How about one small server acting as one computer? I'd expect it's difficult to run 10G (remember, that term now includes AS) on one production computer. Oracle came up with a small system pricing for the db, but decided there isn't any market for AS in the same way. So all the scaling talk is for scaling _up_. Scaling from small can't happen. Now you need to upgrade your network...

jg

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Received on Wed Dec 31 2003 - 13:26:00 CST

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