Bruce Senn writes:

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>> All,
>>         ...'heard at a user-group meeting: "HP3000 implementation of
>>         ORACLE performs better than any other platform given
>>         similar processor speed etc etc"
>>
>>         I'm delighted to hear this, but can't get HP to verify
>>         one way or the other.
>>
>>         Can anyone shed light on this?  If what I heard is true,
>>         then what a great message for the HP3000 this could be.
>>
>>         Comments
>> Mike
>>
>> http://www.bradmark.com
>
>If this is true, Oracle must be an INCREDIBLE hog on other systems.
>Our little phone billing application with a single client rating
>calls as they are made consumes between 10% and 50% of the CPU on
>a 918LX!  Add another client producing billing reports and 50% to
>70% of the CPU goes to Oracle.

At HPWorld'96 I tried each day to eat lunch at a table with HP-UX folks
so I could ask candid questions about how the Unix stuff was working out.

One day I learned about a HP-UX site that required 1.3 million dollars
of h/w to get a single Oracle db operational to support 300 simultaneous
connects (with reasonable performance).

I sure hope the end results are worth it!

duane percox