>>>Absolutely, positively, beyond any shadow of a doubt wrong, especially with a dual processor configuration.
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>After seeing a dual Xeon SuperMicro motherboard that used Intel's I2O chipset with 2GB memory, NT AS, and a RAID array using 6 Quantum drives on a pair of Adaptec's U2W HAs with a RAIDPort III hardware raid extender beat some data into submission last week, no doubt. The right hardware, plenty of RAM, and a tiny bit of tuning to keep VFP from hitting the swapfile makes all the difference in the world!


I'm currently in the final stages of a project using an Oracle back-end running on an NT box with Quad Pentium 500s, 1/2 a Gig of RAM, and RAID 5. After mucking around with pinning objects into Oracle's shared-pool, and sizing the shared-pool appropriately, the application is BLAZING fast (I had tremendous support from an Oracle 'Guru' in getting things set-up). The right tools for the job.... etc and blah blah blah.