>>>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. ...right, I'm aware of current market trends. I was asking about the specific statement above. I don't think "we" dumped Unix years ago for Linux. -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l