Re: Oracle's relationships with expert DBAs (and the rest of us mere mortals)
- From: "Niall Litchfield" <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 31 May 2006 06:27:01 +0100
On 5/30/06, Kevin Closson <kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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.
--
Niall Litchfield
Oracle DBA
http://www.orawin.info
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>>> >>>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.