| Title: | DEC Rdb against the World |
| Moderator: | HERON::GODFRIND |
| Created: | Fri Jun 12 1987 |
| Last Modified: | Thu Feb 23 1995 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1348 |
| Total number of notes: | 5438 |
I have a sales project where a customer is choosing a computer to
run his business systems (like Sales/Purchase Ledger etc.). Presently
the customer is using ORACLE in their other activities (on Stratus).
So Rdb is out - too bad.
Our main competitor is HP with their RISC gadgets.
To beat HP I need some info on ORACLE.
1. Do any of you know how we are benchmarking with ORACLE against
HP? I have heard that HP claims to have three times better
performance than VAX, of course no data or specs shown. I
would like to beat them with cold facts. So any pointers
appriciated.
2. Can any of you confirm whether ORACLE can exploit SMP?
3. How does ORACLE run on HP RISC machines?
Cheers Ilkka
Mailstops: Ilkka Hakamaki @FNO or
HSK01::HAKAMAKI
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| 210.1 | Not Promising | BROKE::BOOTH | What am I?...An Oracle? | Mon Oct 10 1988 21:22 | 8 |
Oracle runs very well on an HP machine as far as I have heard. Even
if it didn't, the HP machine is vastly less expensive, and Oracle
on the HP tops out at $64,000 whereas on an equivalently powered
VAX, Oracle costs around $104,000. Oracle VAX vs. Oracle HP is a
commodity-box win. That is not our forte.
---- Michael Booth
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| 210.2 | HP/ORACLE Cooperation | NUTMEG::SILVERBERG | Tue Oct 11 1988 15:40 | 10 | |
Also, Oracle & HP just announced a cooperative marketing agreement
for the ORACLE Financial products...which are currently only avail
on VAX and SEQUENT machines, with HP & many others to follow soon.
In general, the HP price/performance advantage over VAX is just
as noted in.1....a RISC commodity box win. You will have to go
far beyond the basic HW & SW areas into service, networking,
enterprise level solutions, etc. with VAX to crack the nut against
HP.
Mark
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