[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]
“Vanderbilt University has migrated its critical business
operations to Oracle software and expects to achieve a 185 percent
return on its investment running Oracle on Linux. Prompted by a
3,000 percent increase in data growth over the past two years, the
Nashville, Tenn.-based university faced budget and cost containment
issues while maintaining several decentralized databases. The
institution’s information technology team determined that as the
university expanded, it was critical to consolidate its vital
database and storage needs to improve information access and lower
maintenance costs.“Vanderbilt University is now running a three-node data
warehouse with Oracle Real Application Clusters on Linux,
supporting an alumni development application that went into
production in April, as well as the university’s academic and
financial reporting applications…”