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@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

--- Kevin Closson <kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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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