Re: RE:Oracle Mac Expense

In article <1994Sep2.085909.30935_at_capcon.apana.org.au> Robert Masters, gambit_at_capcon.apana.org.au writes:
>I have recently had the joy of setting up a client-server system using
>oracle CDE tools on the mac. In terms of expense besides spending bundles
>of money to purchase oracle, you also need to upgrade your memory to about
>20-40 Mbytes to get any sort of decent performance.

32Meg of RAM for a development system seems pretty normal to me. If you're developing software with OO languages you'll want at least that.

Running production applications doesn't need nearly as much memory.

>I run Oracle on a Power mac with 40 Megs Ram and it is still sloow. It,
>does seem to run faster on our 486DX/66 than it does on any mac.

The PowerMac is a *dumb* choice for a development system right now. You're better off with either a Quadra or a fast Windows machine until the CDE tools "go native".

• Phil.

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