All, this might sound a little odd but I am putting together a
proposal to do work on a third party system I know very little about.
My company is one of several bidders and we are all in the same boat.
More will be disclosed when the bidders are reduced after our bid
submission, non disclosure agreements are signed, etc.

One of the sections in the bid template is titled "Throughput and
Performance". What is wanted is throughput time estimates.

We have our product that we believe almost meets requirements although
it will need to be customised and this is being investigated now. What
is required in the document in this section is an average time for
operation X, an average time for operation Y etc.

As I don't now their internal infrastructure, I do not want to
demonstrate our ignorance by assuming their Oracle version or host
operating system/architecture. I do not want to request this
information as the question answers would aid all bidders by being
made public. I would like to put together some rough timings for
Oracle on SPARC 64 Solaris 9, RHEL 64 and 32 bit, 32 bit Windows etc
and confirm to them we don't care about the architecture or Oracle
version. I don't have to be comprehensive, just demonstrate we are not
solely a Windows house with a Windows mindset, so 3 examples should do
it, and any 3.

Can anyone recommend a vendor where I could purchase short term Oracle
hosting on a system that would give me 100-140GB tablespace running 9i
or 10g. Alternatively, short term for root access so I could install
Oracle and do the tests. By short term I mean about a week.

Thank you
Barry