Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.icl.net!colt.net!newspeer1.nwr.nac.net!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsfeed2.telusplanet.net!newsfeed.telus.net!edtnps90.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: HansF Subject: Re: Oracle RAC newbie User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Message-ID: Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server References: <1154890261.146977.114080@n13g2000cwa.googlegroups.com> <1154999517.164864.259300@i3g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> <1155001588.712389@bubbleator.drizzle.com> <1155054296.973784@bubbleator.drizzle.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Lines: 17 Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:09:24 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 142.59.224.167 X-Trace: edtnps90 1155064164 142.59.224.167 (Tue, 08 Aug 2006 13:09:24 MDT) NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 13:09:24 MDT Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:272393 On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 18:40:13 +0000, Brian Peasland wrote: > I fully agree with your assessment of EMC, but I do have other > reservations with EMC. They came in on a real low price point when we > purchased disk from them many years ago. After our first maintenance > contract expired, the cost of renewing that maintenance contract was so > high, that it would have been cheaper to buy new replacement disk, which > is precisely what they were strong arming us into doing. They figured Just curious ... is your EMC rep ex-Oracle? (Since that has been the SOP for the typical Oracle rep, at least until the bubble burst.) -- Hans Forbrich (mailto: Fuzzy.GreyBeard_at_gmail.com) *** Feel free to correct me when I'm wrong! *** Top posting [replies] guarantees I won't respond.