At 08:05 PM 3/29/00 -0400, you wrote:

>From: "Claudio Valderrama C." <cvalde@...>
>
> And I assume the Oracle power unit or unit of CPU performance
> still applies
>to one processor, right? As I understand things, if you are installing
>Oracle on a four-processor Intel with NT, for example, you have to calculate
>your power unit according to the CPU speed and then multiply this value by 4
>to get the cost of your puchase. In comparison, IB SuperServer in NT will
>bounce nicely among the four processors... no processor will feel bored. ;-)

Yes you are right. More processors means more bucks. What I find facinating
is how much Oracle has dropped their prices in the last 6 months.
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