great story, i loved this bit: Oracle chief executive Charles Phillips told the Oracle Open World user conference in Melbourne last week that if IT chiefs wanted better performance, they had to be prepared to spend less - that is, drop their proprietary Unixes and expensive multiprocessor boxes and go to Linux on clusters of two-processor or four-processor servers.
"We went for Linux, not just because we hated Microsoft, but because the cost was compelling," Phillips said. "It is clean code, small, not a lot of overhead. That is where we are going in the next three or four years. You have to be there." On Wed, 14 Jul 2004 10:25:16 +1200 (NZST) Derek Smithies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > <http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3577892&thesection=business&thesubsection=technology&thesecondsubsection=information> > > Opening paragraphs:: > > NZX - the New Zealand stock exchange - has become the first major New > Zealand company to adopt the Oracle 10g database running on Red Hat Linux. > > Apart from being able to consolidate 21 databases into one, the new NZX > system runs faster, more reliably and at less cost, says the company's > tech team. > > One key query - searching the data on historical trades to identify > maximum trade values - has been cut from 36 seconds to 0.03 seconds. > > > Derek. > -- > Derek Smithies Ph.D. This PC runs pine on linux for email > IndraNet Technologies Ltd. If you find a virus apparently from > me, it has > Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] forged the e-mail headers on someone > else's machine > ph +64 3 365 6485 Please do not notify me when > (apparently) receiving a > Web: http://www.indranet-technologies.com/ windows virus from me...... > > > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
