[luau] Oracle 9i on Linux

Vikram Khurana vkhurana at mail.nmfs.hawaii.edu
Wed Aug 14 09:43:00 PDT 2002


Actually I take that back. Oracle 9i server -- Isn't that free for 
Linux? or so I read somewhere....

Vikram Khurana wrote:

> The high price maybe because they have Oracle 9i preinstalled on it & 
> hence price includes the Oracle license, which can be expensive......
>
> Warren Togami wrote:
>
>> Mililani High School needs a server to run Oracle 9i server for roughly
>> 20 simultaneous users.  They had purchased a new Dell server for this
>> purpose for about $3,300.  Unfortunately they were somehow horribly
>> ripped off by this purchase, getting only a 1GHz P3 with 512MB RAM.  I
>> am advising them to return this particular Dell ripoff and use one of
>> our donated P2 400MHz Dells from the Air Force.
>>
>> However... will Oracle 9i server run fine on a Pentium2 400MHz with
>> 256MB or 512MB RAM?  At maximum it would need to support 20 simultaneous
>> clients, but they will only use it for students to create small
>> databases and practice SQL statements against it.  No production use.
>>
>> Warren Togami
>> warren at togami.com
>>
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