[geeks] Q: Regarding low/no-cost Oracle licenses for training purposes

[Kurt Mosiejczuk]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:

> My thought is to set up my Ultra 2 w/dual 300 MHz CPUs & 512 Meg RAM but
> would that be a reasonable box?
>
> On a completely different plane, would an SS/5-170 w/256 Meg be reasonable?
> What about my SPARCbook 3TX (SS/5-170 CPU equivalent) w/128 Meg RAM - just
> a bad idea to try???

All three of the systems should be fine.  Heck, the Ultra 2 is beefier
than some systems we have in production.

The biggest thing oracle wants is memory.  Next is disk space, but mainly
for data, so if you don't have much data, you won't need much disk.

--Kurt