Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Former Windows shop recalls path to Unbreakable Linux
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>| So why did a self-described Windows zealot migrate the enterprise
>| applications of a $2 billion manufacturing company to Linux? The decision,
>| Quinn recalled, was borne of necessity and was, therefore, relatively simple
>| In 2002, when Acuity Brands wanted to roll out its Oracle financial systems
>| to a manufacturing facility in Vermilion, Ohio, its Windows operating system
>| couldn't handle the load. "We had three nodes and 150 users, and we needed
>| 300 connections [to the Oracle database], said Jim Draughn, the director of
>| enterprise engineering. "We had 32-bit x86 boxes with 3 Gigs of memory, and
>| Windows just couldn't keep up with our needs."
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> http://searchenterpriselinux.techtarget.com/news/article/0,289142,sid39_gci1305889,00.html
>
Zealots always worry me... they don't let facts (technology, economics)
get in the way of things... we have several here in our shilcosystem.
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