NewsForge: COCC Crows About Oracle on SUSE

"COCC is a technology cooperative based in Connecticut that develops and supports software and systems for community banks and credit unions. Each month, COCC services 7,000 workstations and 500 ATMs, and processes more than seven million check images. The software that provides reporting, databases, and financial information used to run on the AIX platform, but COCC made the switch to Linux and saved 40% on hardware costs alone.

"Brent Biernet, the assistant vice president of network services at COCC, says it was the reassuring presence of a big company like Novell that convinced him to make the switch to SUSE Linux..."

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