Re: so when did you switch from NT to unix for oracle

> Should a company be willing to spend a comparable amount annually with
> their Linux provider and their hardware provider that they would give to
> (for instance) Sun Support, I believe they could easily achieve
> comparable levels of hardware and software reliability than any other
> commercial unix.

Perhaps an extreme example, but the NIH/CDC's recently signed the papers on a supercomputer for the Seattle lab. The box has 1000+ Intel It. procssors, 1.8Tb of core (no typo: Tera) and runs linux. For $23M you can have one too :-)

The fact that people are using linux for something this heavy duty is interesting. The main reasons for choosing the O/S were scaleability, reliability, and support.

Similar results came up from the DoD's recent software audit: they got better results for many app's from open source code than proprietary -- Billy wan't pleased in the least.

Regardless of *NIX debates, linux is proving out as a nice, stable platform for cheap, reliable federated systems.

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