>>>> 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 Vitaliy, You missed my point. I am completely willing to accept any and all of your claims to Oracle excellence. My point about "brutal OS/platform religious wars" was specifically directed at shops that "wind up" trying to make a plunge into linux in spite of internal fighting. Those are the projects that have a hard time succeeding. 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 >>> >>> >>> -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l