RE: Windows 2000 Server and processor recommendations

[Mercadante, Thomas F]

Shannon.   How much is a Dual Xeon 3.06GHz w/1M cache and 4GB Ram?   Seems to me that if you can afford the higher priced but slower cpu model, that the additional Ram can not be that much more.  Basically, if you can afford $8800, can you afford an additional $x to add 2 GB of Ram to the 3.06GHz box?  Memory is cheap!   Otherwise, I would buy the faster machine in hopes that you can afford a memory upgrade sometime soon.   Hope this helps.   Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -----Original Message----- From: Shannon St. Dennis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 1:30 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Windows 2000 Server and processor recommendations We are going to be installing a small web application in our DMZ.  The application was built using JSP, running on an Apache/tomcat configuration. The back end is small (< 1Gb) oracle standard edition database (v9.2.0)   We are going to run this on a dual-processor dell server.  There will be lots of OLTP (online lookups) but the actual transaction is very small (enter an address and it tells you where your polling station is).   We have several options for configuring the server.  What would be better?   a) Dual Xeon 3.06GHz w/1M cache and 2GB Ram: $8,423 d) Dual Zeon 2.4Ghz w/512K cache and 4Gb Ram : $8,872   is it better to skimp slightly on the cpu's and go for more ram (ie. caching more)?     Thanks for any info.     Shannon   Shannon St. Dennis Database Administrator City of Regina (306) 777-7415 (phone) (306) 777-6804 (fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED]   The degree of normality in a database is inversely proportional to that of its DBA