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- From: cintra4@milton.u.washington.edu (Dave Lange)
- Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle
- Subject: more info about: Re: Which DEC/Ultrix box to pick?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep13.165429.9603@u.washington.edu>
- Date: 13 Sep 92 16:54:29 GMT
- References: <1992Sep13.044653.2579@u.washington.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep13.044653.2579@u.washington.edu> cintra4@milton.u.washington.edu (Dave Lange) writes:
- This paragraph was left out of my message, sorry.
- I have chosen Oracle for a database to hold 500M to 1.5G of data for querying,
- not transactions or dataentry. It will be used by a maximum of 5 users at a
- time. I originally intended to use oracl.nlm on a dedicated netware server.
- The hardware was to be an EISA based 486DX2-66 with 17M, an Adaptec 1740 SCSI
- contro and a 32 bit ethernet board.
-
- >I would like to consider shifting this to unix, using the DEC platforms.
- >I understand unix has a flat loading curve as the number of users
- >increases, but this isn't my situation. What I need is the lower part
- >of this load curve to match or exceed the performance the NLM would have
- >provided on the selected platform.
- >
- >Without starting wars over whose system is better, I would like to know
- >what you have found out, in terms of benchmarks or use, about which
- >Ultrix box will give me equivalent performance in my situation.
- >
- >Also, how close to the top of the list is Ultrix in terms of when new
- >releases of Oracle are ported to different platforms?
- >
- >Your choice to post or email me. TIA
- >
- >Dave Lange (cintra4@u.washington.edu)
-