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Re: Oracle's relationships with expert DBAs (and the rest of us mere mortals)

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 06:27:01 +0100
Message-ID: <7765c8970605302227m936108cj3e4038e3b94dfa15@mail.gmail.com>


On 5/30/06, Kevin Closson <kevinc_at_polyserve.com> wrote:
>
> >>>
> >>>By definition, we jump ship when MySQL or whatever delivers,
> >>>just as we dumped comercial Unixes/Unices/Unixen for linux
> >>>years ago.
>
>
> Did this really happen? Hmmm.

Sales of Unix are down and 'Sales' of Linux are up by virtually every survey I see. I think that yes it probably has happened a lot. And, as I can now testify yes at least one Sun shop has ditched Solaris for RedHat whilst running e-business suite so Oracle apps people do it as well.

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Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.orawin.info

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