I would stick with Sybase. There are no major advantages to going over to Oracle, and 30Gb is not that big an issue. My advice would be to base-line this as a dual CPU box with at least 1Gb of memory. ASE 12 does nice things like "companion" mode to provide you with the other copy. You could also use Rep-Server to provide replicatition as the means to have a second copy. That is the nice thing about Sybase, there are many flexible options to solve a given problem. Like many of the other comments in this thread, I would stick with Sun on the box side as you pay for the reliability. I would also suggest that you get professional help on the design and architecture side.
I guess that this ought to be a good thing. People who disagree with this, rather than flaming me shoudl possibly get into the loop and improve on what is out there. The Microsoft product is not that brilliant, and I have kinda been hoping that "the-world" would come up with a better offering. By making this open, we get to do something about all of the things that we dont like about it.
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I would stick with Sybase. There are no major advantages to going over to Oracle, and 30Gb is not that big an issue. My advice would be to base-line this as a dual CPU box with at least 1Gb of memory. ASE 12 does nice things like "companion" mode to provide you with the other copy. You could also use Rep-Server to provide replicatition as the means to have a second copy. That is the nice thing about Sybase, there are many flexible options to solve a given problem. Like many of the other comments in this thread, I would stick with Sun on the box side as you pay for the reliability. I would also suggest that you get professional help on the design and architecture side.
I guess that this ought to be a good thing. People who disagree with this, rather than flaming me shoudl possibly get into the loop and improve on what is out there. The Microsoft product is not that brilliant, and I have kinda been hoping that "the-world" would come up with a better offering. By making this open, we get to do something about all of the things that we dont like about it.