Yes and no. If you put in a decent new Adaptec (AHA) SCSI III adapter, it will be capable of working with a 133MHZ or better motherboard and IO will be fast, even faster then on an expensive SUN 4xx servers. Of course, we must be aware that people are putting sound, webcams, game ports and TV cards into their PCs ant that is never a good idea for a database server. Personally, I think that a big SMP PC with a few gigs of RAM and decent SCSI or FC/AL disk farm can easily service 2 or 3 hundred users. One would still need approximately $10,000 to assemble a piece like that, but before that, the prices used to have more zeroes. Of course, there is that little added cost of Oracle RDBMS which will be 2 times as expensive as the HW it's running on and that is really what people don't like.
> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, August 01, 2002 6:33 AM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > Subject: RE: LINUX and Oracle Corp. > > > > > -- "Cabansay, Yoyong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 08/01/02 > 02:19:10 -0800 > > > regarding the above topic but on a different note, anyone > here on the > > list that is on an Oracle/HP-UX OS platform for backend and > 9iAS/Linux > > on the middle tier? problems encountered? gotchas? stories > to tell. we > > are looking at this configuration right now for our Oracle Apps 11i. > > Main issue w/ most linux boxes is hardware: PC's stink at > I/O due to the Intel motherboard design. The net result > tends to be a transfer bottleneck. > > -- > Steven Lembark 2930 W. Palmer > Workhorse Computing Chicago, IL 60647 > +1 800 762 1582 > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > -- > Author: > INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 > San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Gogala, Mladen INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
