--- Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 5/31/06, MVE <mvetmp-ora@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > What edge does Linux on a PC has over Solaris on a Sun Box? > > Adequate performance at a hugely reduced cost. Windows has this as well. As > a rule of thumb, yes I know!, you can now run at least a hundred concurrent > sessions of an erp app on hardware and software costing less than GBP4000 > (oracle license excluded). Is it cast iron guaranteed reliable and > available, well no. Do you need it to be - probably not. > > Niall Litchfield That hardware cost "reduction" is irrelevant when you figure the rest of the cost to run a fairly decent size shop on ORACLE. And when a shop has close 1 MIL in license and support fees the lousy 8K are not even a drop of water in the bucket. And then 4 years later there's the mighty APPS upgrade and here you are on a fluid-always-changing platform (Linux), shoot in the foot, having to work twice as hard for what? For a lousy 8K reduction in the initial cost of hardware that is already obsolete anyway? - Vitaliy -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l