Wall street types are used to working on serious hardware though (I am not a wall street person, but work for a fortune 500 type place). One of our Oracle data

Wall street types are used to working on serious hardware though (I am not a wall street person, but work for a fortune 500 type place). One of our Oracle databases sits on a 24 core itanium box That sort of hardware + Oracle can munch through some serious work - perhaps that is the database solution, but I believe it doesn't come cheap!