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From: rossperr@sud509.ed.ray.com (Fred Ross-Perry)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: ORACLE Server - recommendations?
Message-ID: <3128@sud509.ed.ray.com>
Date: 8 Nov 90 20:36:24 GMT
Sender: rossperr@sud509.ed.ray.com (Fred Ross-Perry @ Raytheon Company, Sudbury MA)
Organization: Raytheon Company, Sudbury MA
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We are contemplating what kind of hardware and o/s to use to build
an ORACLE server.  It will be an OLTP type of application, using
SQL*Net with clients on all sorts of other platforms, geographically
distributed.  There may be potentially hundreds of simultaneous
conenctions to the database, with between 2 and 10 transactions
per second likely.

We want something cheap, reliable and fast (obviously).  Also, disk
shadowing or mirroring is a plus, for data reliability.  DEC's trying to
interest us in a VAX 4000, I'm wondering if we could do this with some sort of 
486 EISA box.

Takers?