VNUNet: Linux Vies with Oracle Sep 3, 2004, 04 :00 UTC (1 Talkback[s]) (5863 reads) (Other stories by Roger Howorth)
"Here's a remarkable tale about a company that replaced an Oracle database cluster with a few Linux servers.
"The great thing about this story is that the Linux servers did not run database software. The Oracle database had been converted and stored on the Linux hard disk as a collection of some 100,000 files. The work was part of a major application upgrade that involved redesigning all the components of a busy web site.