Re: [tlug] Business applications of Linux

[Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>]

Quoth patrick.niessen@example.com (Fri 2003-04-11 06:11:30AM +0200):

> From: e_davies@example.com [mailto:e_davies@example.com] 
>
> > I'm contracting as a 'database engineer' and I recently 
> > convinced my client, a medium-sized company, to upgrade thier 
> > DBs from Oracle8i on HP-UX to Oracle9i on Linux servers 
> > (Miracle Linux).
> 
> What was the reason for the switch?  Cheaper Hardware or Software License?
> OS consolidation?

I consider HP-UX one of the cruftier Unices that I have ever had the
misfortune of using--and I do a lot of Solaris! ;)


-- 
Josh Glover <jmglov@example.com>

Associate Systems Administrator
INCOGEN, Inc.
http://www.incogen.com/

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