what's the slackware specific with your app in the first place?
It's not the app but the DBMS server that will be running on Slackware. After thinking about what has been said on the subject, I'm more or less convinced that for our specific situation, familiarity with the DBMS being used is indeed the overriding concern as opposed to the specific distro or OS it is running on. I don't see any intensive tweaking or fixing of the OS being required when running MySQL or Firebird (dunno about PostrgeSQL) - basic Linux familiarity will probably suffice to address most support problems that may crop up.
why? coz recently, some of our foreign clients were convinced by MS regarding TCO, etc..
In areas where the Linux environment is less mature (like client apps), then MS TCO is likely to be lower (training and the amount of time you need to get people up and running). But when it comes to server deployment, Linux has a lot of very compelling advantages. I would highly recommend a heterogenous environment to get the best of both worlds: cheap, powerful Linux servers (DBMS, web, file, etc...) as backends for Win32-based client apps with sophisticated GUIs.
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