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From: "Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield@dial.pipex.com>
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Subject: Re: DB2 Crushes Oracle RAC on TPC-C benchmark
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DA Morgan wrote:
> Maybe I'm showing my innocence here but if Mark gives away RAC
licenses
> for free it costs Oracle one piece of 8 1/2 x 11 paper. I think of
> hardware as being different.

One of the big ways in which RAC has been sold is that you can save big
bucks by throwing out all that expensive hardware. Now if RAC is free
or nearly so then that would be fair enough, but last time I looked the
list price of RAC was $20k per processor. So instead of buying an 8 way
Unix box (say the sun v880 at 86k list for 8 processors and 16gb RAM)
you buy 2 4 way dell boxes with linux on them (I've used 2 4 way power
edge 7250s with 8gb ram each) for 47k and save 40k on hardware. Great.
You've also added 256k including the standard discount from
store.oracle.com to the system price. So that is paying 200k more for a
more complex and less widely adopted system.

Incidentally even without RAC the software was the significant cost of
the system anyway. 

Niall