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
--- 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.
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