It's good to hear that you have got Linux into some oil and gas firms. I am no longer with that company anymore, but we also had 3 applications running on the Windows server. 1. Accounting software. It's a real bad package developed locally. It was chosen because we had already paid for the upgrade from the previous version. However they forced us to get a Win2K backend and we eneded up paying more in support than we would have for a whole new package. The real stupid part was that they don't run any executables on the Windows machine. It is just a couple of Access databases sitting on an SMB file server. However when I proposed that we save money by using Linux, the idiot tech insisted that it would only work on Windows. 2. Accumap. I asked the tech if they had a Linux version. He said that their main version was for Windows but he had also done Netware installs. He didn't seem to know much about Unix and told me that it would work on Unix if it was loaded on a DOS partition, which didn't make any sense to me. I suspect that they don't have a Linux/Unix version. However I suspect that they only executable they run on the server is their anti-piracy software, if one could get that working on Linux, it may work. 3. Peep. When I left they were also looking at designing a database. The quote that I read was for an Access database that would run on the Windows server. I tried to talk them out of it and even gave them a quote from a friend of mine who proposed a Postgres backend running on Linux and a .NET frontend for the Windows desktops. I'm not sure what decision if any they have made.
If programs like these could run on Linux, I think the oil and gas industry would take a second look at Linux. Jesse
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