Re: All else equal - Dual 800 MHz or Quad 550 MHz Xeons - on NT4.0?

Think about the price for the license !

You can license Processor-Power Units or Named-User :

Take a look at http://oraclestore.oracle.com

If you decide to use a UNIX-Machine with one or more RISC-Processors the coast for each Power-Unit is 10$ higher than Intel-Processors....

4 * 550 * $15 = $33,000 with Intel or $55,000 with RISC - Processor 2 * 800 * $15 = $24,000 with Inter or $40,000 with RISC - Processor

Alternativ you can license Named-User (NU) (min. is 1 NU for every 20 Power -Units :

( 4 * 550 ) / 20 = 110 NU each $160 = $17,600 ( 2 * 800 ) / 20 = 80 NU each $160 = $12,800

The advantage of Power-Units is that there are no user limitations.

I don't know what your application does and how many user are connected, but normaly the Processor-Power is not the Bottleneck -> Have an eye on Disk-I/O and Memory-Performance.

If you are in the Oracle Partner Programm, you can get up to 60% off.

Hope that helps ..

Stephen Wellman <swellman_at_chemware.com> schrieb in im Newsbeitrag: 89p588$c13$1_at_gaddy.interpath.net...
> I have a client who is wants me to help size a sever for their Oracle
> database (probble 10 GB in 2 years). They can't decide to buy a dual 800
MHz
> PIII system or a quad 550 MHz Xeon server running NT 4.0 SP5. Can anyone
> help? All else equal, which system configuration would be faster? I
realize
> this is somewhat of a lame question, but any help would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>
> Stephen
>
>
Received on Sat Mar 04 2000 - 04:02:40 CET