Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Path: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu!spool.maxwell.syr.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!news.glorb.com!sws1!ornl!news.er.usgs.gov!news From: Brian Peasland Subject: Re: Oracle RAC newbie In-Reply-To: X-Nntp-Posting-Host: edc-cv-160-54.cr.usgs.gov Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Message-ID: User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.5 (Windows/20060719) Sender: news@igsrsparc2.er.usgs.gov (Janet Walz (GD) x6739) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: U.S. Geological Survey, Reston VA 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 Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 20:27:34 GMT Lines: 31 Xref: dp-news.maxwell.syr.edu comp.databases.oracle.server:272398 HansF wrote: > 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.) > Can't answer that one...maybe I should have asked back then! :) Cheers, Brian -- =================================================================== Brian Peasland dba@nospam.peasland.net http://www.peasland.net Remove the "nospam." from the email address to email me. "I can give it to you cheap, quick, and good. Now pick two out of the three" - Unknown