>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? CarlWKemp replied: >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. > Lots has changed since 1990 - especially ORACLE on the HP3000. From my understanding ORACLE Version 7 - per se - runs quite nicely on HP3000 MPE/iX 5.0, neither versions (of ORACLE or MPE/iX) which were available in 1990. So - notwithstanding all the various lawsuits flying around - this latest warning MAY be dated. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gilles Schipper Voice: 905/889-3000 GSA Inc. Fax: 905/889-3001 300 John Street, Box 87651 Internet: [log in to unmask] Thornhill, ON Canada L3T 7R4 Compuserve: 71203,474 -----------------------------------------------------------------------------