--- Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 5/31/06, MVE <mvetmp-ora@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > What edge does Linux on a PC has over Solaris on a Sun Box?
>
> Adequate performance at a hugely reduced cost. Windows has this as well. As
> a rule of thumb, yes I know!, you can now run at least a hundred concurrent
> sessions of an erp app on hardware and software costing less than GBP4000
> (oracle license excluded).  Is it cast iron guaranteed reliable and
> available, well no. Do you need it to be - probably not.
>
> Niall Litchfield

That hardware cost "reduction" is irrelevant when you figure the rest of the
cost to run a fairly decent size shop on ORACLE.

And when a shop has close 1 MIL in license and support fees the lousy 8K are
not even a drop of water in the bucket.

And then 4 years later there's the mighty APPS upgrade and here you are on a
fluid-always-changing platform (Linux), shoot in the foot, having to work twice
as hard for what?  For a lousy 8K reduction in the initial cost of hardware
that is already obsolete anyway?