NetComrade wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Dec 2007 10:05:21 -0800, DA Morgan <damorgan_at_psoug.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Noons wrote:
>>> On Dec 6, 1:33 am, DA Morgan <damor..._at_psoug.org> wrote:
>>>
>> Put the Oracle database on Linux (free) which is where it belongs
>> and the cost remains $0 for the operating system.
>>
>> $3000 may be a lot of money for you and me. But it is pennies for
>> a organization that is purchasing Oracle licenses, Windows licenses,
>> servers, domain controllers, power conditioning, air conditioning,
>> and paying the salary of someone such as yourself to manage it all.
>
> Most organizations put Oracle on Windows not because they want to, but
> because they don't have a unix admin on staff, and while $3K is tiny
> to them, having at least 1 or 2 engineers knowing what to do with a
> shell prompt goes up to 100-200K, and many don't like to outsource,
> b/c they've been burned by it.
> .......
> We run Oracle 9iR2,10gR1/2 on RH4/RH3 and Solaris 10 (Sparc)
> remove NSPAM to email
A Windows admin that can't pick up Linux in a week is no Windows
admin. They are an end user that stumbled into their job because
the hiring manager didn't know enough about the subject to ask
them any good questions.
--
Daniel A. Morgan
Oracle Ace Director & Instructor
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu (replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org
Received on Mon Dec 10 2007 - 01:19:30 CST
