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

>>>> We generally walk out of the deals where there is brutal
>>>OS/platform
>>>> religious wars because those projects never succeed.
>>>
>>>There's no "brutal OS/platform religious wars" in our shop
>>>and we DO succeed, not only do we succeed but we are the
>>>first company to implement Direct Order Fulfillment Business
>>>Model

Vitaliy,

   You missed my point. I am completely willing to accept any and all of your claims to Oracle excellence. My point about "brutal OS/platform religious wars" was specifically directed at shops that "wind up" trying to make a plunge into linux in spite of internal fighting. Those are the projects that have a hard time succeeding.     

using ORACLE Advanced Supply Chain Planning in record
>>>time of THREE month in (2002).
>>>
>>>We are so efficient at what we do that in 2004 our State of
>>>the Art operation was called "Lean Machine" by ORACLE's
>>>PROFIT magazine.
>>>
>>>Did we get here all because of ORACLE/Solaris? Heck NO! We
>>>know what we are doing from top down. But it sure helps
>>>especially when you consider that our MAIN production
>>>environment consist of 20 servers supported by:
>>>
>>> 2 DBAs and 2 SA
>>>
>>>with the following load:
>>>
>>> Data Growth per Year
>>> ---------------------
>>> Operational DBs 32GB
>>> Warehouse DBs 124GB
>>>
>>> 10GB worth of REDO throughput per 24 hours
>>> 3-4 thousand SQL*Net connections per hour
>>>
>>>Additionally we manage 12 smaller production databases.
>>>
>>>- Vitaliy
>>>--
>>>http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
>>>
>>>
>>>

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