Re: Oracle costs and requirements

Frank van Bortel wrote: 
DA Morgan wrote:

Frank van Bortel wrote:


DA Morgan wrote:


Matt Bailey wrote:


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Well, ideally I'd like to make it as realistic an estimate as
possible, so I'll do some further investigating, but failing that,
this looks like a good option!

Matt 



I still question your professor's sanity unless you have 3 months or
more to do this. But have a whack at it and don't forget to purchase
a maintenance agreement on your hardware.



I could run it in service. 


And if he contacted an ASP, such as bluegecko.net, they would provide
the hardware, the DBA, the SysAdmin, etc. for just a few thousand a
month making the entire process of researching the paper basically a
single email. But then, while fulfilling his professor's request with
precision ... would likely get a really bad grade.



Realistically, I'd outsource it, or I'd run it on
XE/Linux, or XE/Windows, depending on what
the shop already has (Windows or Unix expertise).

The shop is small, and the data demand is small.
A server would be any Intel based machine (less than 500 Euro),
preferably with some kind of storage box (RAID/JBOD) attached,
cost: approx 1500 Euro (RAID0/1/5; 4*450MB drives)

As this is a new design/application, I'd make it web enabled.
JDeveloper, and HTMLDB come to mind; JDeveloper if you insist
on J2EE/JSF/ADF (which really boosts your development performance!),
but probably requires an extra machine as web- and applicationserver.
If you keep the amount of hits small (1 million hits/month or less);
HTMLDB will do. Adding two tables and three screens will be a matter
of days; two, three at the most. HTMLDB is really easy, but delivers
pure HTML - maybe not sexy enough for a chain of Fitness centres.


Lets get him a quote. You quote on the development and I'll quote
on the hosting.  ;-)

Think he'll pay in Chimay?
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