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From: "Ranga Nathan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2002 14:03:33 -0700
Subject: Seeking recommendations on Unix platform
To: "boston-pm \(E-mail\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
A customer is interested in migrating from mainframe to unix platform. I am
trying to steer them towards open/free software. I need to propose a robust
unix implementation (net BSD has been suggested, Linux on HP or IBM is fine
too, I in fact like that) that can take the workload of the mainframes. Not
that I doubt it, but I should be able to convince the customer of it!
I also need to recommend a robust relational DBMS (Postgres has been
suggested, MySQL now seems to have transaction logic ) that can handle a
large number of concurrent connections and full ACID compliance.
A rapid application development tool would be nice for simple applications.
Zope? Of course a powerful, easy to use language - Perl is my favourite but
mainframe guys would be intimidated by the { }.
If someone can point me to articles or whitepapers I would be grateful. In
fact that is one thing I want to prepare too.
This customer is currently spending in excesss of $100K on mainframe
hardware alone ( it is a college with some 35,000 students) and an equal
amount on software. They have a staff of 12 including a DBA and system
programmer.
I am thinking of helping them migrate to unix/linux first with the
proprietary software that runs on these and concurrently begin redevelopment
on open/free systems.
All kinds of opinions and suggestions are welcome. If there is a better
forum, please direct me to it. Thanks
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