[ Thanks to Krissi
Danielsson for this link. ]
“Most workers look forward to pay day.”
“But for information technology managers Gary Brite and Mark
Moehling pay days were days of dread.Their employer, Phoenix-based
Giant Industries Inc., was plagued by an Oracle payroll processing
system running on Microsoft Windows NT that crashed several times a
week. On other days, it just ran like a tortoise.”
“We always sweated getting those 3,000 payroll checks cut on
time,” says Brite, IT technical services manager for Giant, a
refiner and marketer of petroleum products.”
“Pay day was just one of countless days of misery for Giant’s IT
staff. Unexplainable, excessive and constant downtime and poor
system performance were fueling user frustration. Giant was growing
rapidly, but its existing Windows NT servers and technology
infrastructure seemed incapable of handling a greater load.”
“The company finally found relief in Linux. Today, Giant’s
server uptime is close to 100 percent and costs of ownership of
systems running on the Linux platform is headed down.”