Re: Oracle SGA size on i386 platforms

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_dial.pipex.com>
Date: Sun, 10 Apr 2005 13:46:35 +0100
Message-ID: <42592002$0$298$cc9e4d1f@news-text.dial.pipex.com>

"DA Morgan" <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:1113078642.498741_at_yasure...
> But still you pay a huge premium for Windows and
> get little in exchange other than increased vulnerability.

64 Bit Windows Server is $1200 list price, RHAS support is $1500. You can probably get both cheaper if you negotiate. Where is the huge premium? Especially if you factor in the cost of the app and the db software. Operating systems - even those from MS are commodity products now.

There are a number of reasons to criticise MS, but the 'huge premium' isn't one of them.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
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Received on Sun Apr 10 2005 - 07:46:35 CDT