Ray Strode wrote:
Mililani High School needs a server to run Oracle 9i server for roughly
20 simultaneous users. They had purchased a new Dell server for this
purpose for about $3,300. Unfortunately they were somehow horribly
ripped off by this purchase, getting only a 1GHz P3 with 512MB RAM. I
am advising them to return this particular Dell ripoff and use one of
our donated P2 400MHz Dells from the Air Force.
Do you think a P2 400MHz is going to be good enough for 20 simultaneous
clients? I doubt it.
--Ray
Depends on what they're doing. For students who will be running simple
queries on small databases, probably. As Warren points out, this isn't
a production server. Make sure to keep the databases down to a
reasonable size and you should be fine. Remember, people have run SQL
servers on much less powerful systems than a PII-400.
--MonMotha
