[Kuba Ober]

> Yeah, cost was / is a big issue.  Anyway, I'm just asking about people's
> experience / knowledge to head off any issues so I can spend my time on
> learning the good parts.

Run some stress tests. If Oracle uses a filesystem (vs. a raw partition), run 
them using the filesystem in question. You probably want this thing to have 
long uptimes (at least a couple days without a kernel panic etc), so a stress 
test would do good.

Cheers, Kuba