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

 

On 5/31/06, MVE <mvetmp-ora@yahoo.com> wrote:

--- Kevin Closson <kevinc@polyserve.com> 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.

- Vitaliy
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