John Hallis <[log in to unmask]>  wrote:
 
 
>We are looking at purchasing Oracle Financials (A/P, G/L, A/r, Fixed
>Assets) as well as Oracle Purchasing and Human Resources.
>
>We would like to continue to run our Hp3000 Series 987/1 using these
>applications, and would appreciate any feedback on how it worked with
>your companies?
 
 
Please, try to AVOID doing this. We tried this "solution" at L.A. Gear in
1990. We wound up exchanging lawsuits with Oracle for the next three years
before we finally got a system that "worked" (and I use that word VERY
loosely). This PIG completely pegged a 980 for nine hours straight with a
whopping 11 users and no other applications running at the same time. It
crashed at the drop of a hat and ate everything it could find (CPU,
memory, disk, you name it) during those times when it wasn't busy
crashing. I became the DBA and was handed this behemoth after the lawsuits
finally died down. I have never seen a database that performed so
incredibly badly (yes, that includes Dbase and Rbase, too).
 
By the way, we also had some 15,000 datasets on our other HP3000's, each
of which supported between 100 and 350 simultaneous users, with nary a
complaint on any of them.