I don't know anyone who needs it but Oracle is behind it and that means that
sooner or later they'll start to shift licenses. I'd be foolish to ignore
the chance to experiment with RAC at home for �150 (I had a lot of the kit
already) rather than pay Oracle �1158 for a 3 day RAC course (plus the loss
of 3 days income).
Add on to that the amount I've learned about the linux kernel and the fact
that frankly a firewire disk is just generally useful to have around
(backups/temporary storage for video or music) and I think I'd be a mug to
do otherwise.
So no, I don't work for a company that needs this but in the near future I
may.
Cheers,
Mike
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Sent: 11 February 2003 16:30
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
This is all cool technology, and fun stuff to play with.
It all begs the questions,
"How many of us work for a business that actually need this?"
"Are they willing to pay $400/user $20k/CPU above the cost
of Oracle 9i EE to use it?"
"Are they willing to pay the extra overhead required to maintain it?"
I'm not sure the ROI is there for many of us. Though downtime
at our business is somewhat expensive, I think that a failover
system or even standby database will provide adequate coverage
for us, which is indeed a hot topic here right now, after our Dell
SAN put us out of business for 36 hours.
RAC wouldn't have helped much there. Niether would a cluster
for that matter. Standby DB would have been perfect.
This whole push of RAC by Oracle reminds me very much of the
mlife phone campaign by ATT. Do you really need to take pictures
with your phone? And what is the point of sending text messages
to someone elses phone when you could just call them?
ATT needs you to buy this stuff, because they have it for sale.
I see RAC in a similar light. Do you need RAC? Oracle needs
you to 'need' it, because they need some reason for you to
spend more money on their product.
Jared
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