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Noons wrote:
> DA Morgan wrote: >
> > > Bingo! How true. > >
> > > Precisely. This is also what I'm seeing on my end. > RAC makes it much easier to start with just enough resources > and then expand as needed and as the needs evolve. > > I've lost count of the number of times in the past where this > situation has occurred: sites buy huge hardware upfront which > then sits idle doing development for years, and then is > undersized when production finally hits. > > If anything has the potential to make RAC take off, > it's this. The cost spread is so much better it's not > even comparable. > >
> > > Ah yes. But they've been doing that for a long time. > The only difference with RAC is they're actually > doing the right thing. For once...
Which taking it full circle ... means that Larry and Oracle are delivering something worth the price of admission.
And not to restart the flame idiocy ... it is the one part of the story other vendor's solutions can't touch ... the ability to increment the hardware and with new hardware load-balance to higher productivity. The DB2 solution, for example, can only be as fast as the slowest machine.
-- Daniel A. Morgan University of Washington damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)Received on Wed Feb 02 2005 - 18:27:13 CST