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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: oracle and America
The sad part is the Canadian government feels compelled to follow the Americans are replacing some of their apps that ran on Unix to Windows. Actually, the app is an American one that they let us use. A lot of critical stuff is still on Unix. Then again, ours ships really don't need reliable stuff as we don't do anything except support:-)
-----Original Message-----
Sent: Tuesday, March 13, 2001 2:07 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
Holy mackerel!
I hope there isn't some rogue nation buying all our old VAX clusters to run their navy. We'll get our behinds kicked!
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Boivin, Patrice J wrote:
>
> > I thought I heard a story about a U.S. Navy ship that was towed to port
> > because its systems ran on WindowsNT...
> >
> > Maybe it was an urban myth.
> >
> > I was glad to hear that the Boeing planes run on UNIX.
> >
> > ; )
> >
> > Patrice Boivin
> > Systems Analyst (Oracle Certified DBA)
>
> No myth this. ( yeth? ;)
>
> Here's a reference:
>
> http://www.gcn.com/archives/gcn/1998/july13/cov2.htm
>
> Jared
>
>
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