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

Vitaliy,

> proven/stable ONE-VENDOR (os/hardware) platforms when all these shops
ditch

That might be. However I used to work for a mainframe company that thought this business of buying your hardware (and generic O.S. a.k.a. Unix) from one vendor and your database from another was just a passing fad. Those customers will soon see the error of their ways and return.

   Well, the mainframe company is just a historical entry in Wikipedia. Eventually those scruffy upstarts got that Unix thing to be passably reliable.

Dennis Williams

On 5/31/06, MVE <mvetmp-ora_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> --- Kevin Closson <kevinc_at_polyserve.com> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> That Sun/APPS shop that ditched Solaris for Linux must be insane or have
> been
> "advised" to do so by an hourly consultant. Can I have their #? They
> will
> need help soon (next upgrade).
>
> This is all just a trend just like Windows was when everyone was going SC
> and
> then NCA and wanted to put their middle-tiers on Win.
>
> There will be lots of work for the DBAs that stuck to their guns with
> proven/stable ONE-VENDOR (os/hardware) platforms when all these shops
> ditch
> their Linux along with the "specialists" that advised them to switch to it
> in
> the first place.
>
> - Vitaliy
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