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Re: [News] "Self-described Windows Zealot" Must Move to GNU/Linux Because of Windows' Limitations

Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
> Former Windows shop recalls path to Unbreakable Linux
> 
> ,----[ Quote ]
>| 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."        
> `----
> 
> 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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