--- oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > >>> > >>>I figured this thread would have been closed by now. As we > >>>all know it is all about the right tools for the right skill > >>>set for the right job for the right price. > > You are 100% correct, Ken. Reading between the lines > in Vitaliy's posts lends me to wonder whether there > are forces within his organization trying to influence > a koolaid-drunken wholesale leap into a Linux-based > solution. I've seen that in a lot of shops. Incidentally, > those are the shops that don't end up going forward with > a Linunx deployment. The once that do (in my experience > with our product set) are the ones that have a level > headed approach to using the right tool for the right > job. > > We generally walk out of the deals where there is > brutal OS/platform religious wars because those > projects never succeed. There's no "brutal OS/platform religious wars" in our shop and we DO succeed, not only do we succeed but we are the first company to implement Direct Order Fulfillment Business Model using ORACLE Advanced Supply Chain Planning in record time of THREE month in (2002). We are so efficient at what we do that in 2004 our State of the Art operation was called "Lean Machine" by ORACLE's PROFIT magazine. Did we get here all because of ORACLE/Solaris? Heck NO! We know what we are doing from top down. But it sure helps especially when you consider that our MAIN production environment consist of 20 servers supported by: 2 DBAs and 2 SA with the following load: Data Growth per Year --------------------- Operational DBs 32GB Warehouse DBs 124GB 10GB worth of REDO throughput per 24 hours 3-4 thousand SQL*Net connections per hour Additionally we manage 12 smaller production databases. - Vitaliy -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l