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SearchEnterpriseLinux: Oracle 9i Rocks, But Will Desktop Linux?

[ Thanks to Michael
S. Mimoso
for this link. ]

What is challenging about standardizing on Linux in
your data center?

Hill: Software availability has been a
challenge in having Linux as our enterprise standard. Most of the
big vendors are now supporting it; a lot of that’s recent, within
the last six months. A lot of the smaller vertical vendors have not
yet converted their products to Linux.

“I think today in the data center, we’re at the point now in our
technology plan where we can show a Linux destination for almost
every application that we run. But I think other environments that
have more dependency on market applications could still find that
challenging…”


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