> I have no idea how expensive it is, but fortunately that's not my
> problem :) I was only asked about the possibility of running Postgres
> that way.
> And by the way: how expensive is that?
something like US$23000 per CPU core for the RAC option for Oracle
Enterprise. so a 100 node cluster with dual quadcore cpus would be 800
CPUs would be .... my head hurts. oh, thats on top of the oracle
enterprise license ($47K/core), and features like Partitioning are extra
too. support is about 25%/year additional.
see
http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/pricing/technology-price-list-070617.pdf
for the base pricing. if you're a big corporation that uses a *LOT* of
oracle, you might get this cut in half. or not, depending on Oracle's
accountants estimations of your ability to be bled for more.