“Nearly everything about the migration went smoothly, according
to Bill York, senior Linux administrator at Burton. York, who came
to Burton in the midst of the migration operation, detailed what
was behind the move in the first place.“”There was not a lot of value coming out of the [HP-UX]
operating system,” York explained. Burton’s SAP operations had
experienced frequent downtime and the hardware costs were pinching
the company’s bottom line as well. When examining their options,
York’s co-workers determined that a Linux-on-commodity solution
would be the best solution. Linux gave the company a wider range of
options in terms of hardware and application support, since it
could handle their BSD- and System V-based scripts without too much
porting pain.”