[ Thanks to Matt for
this link. ]
“Linux seller Red Hat–which chiefly looks to displace Unix
rivals–announced today it has landed a customer that is bumping
aside Microsoft Windows in favor of Red Hat software for its
database servers.“Acuity Lighting Group, an 11,800-employee company that sells $2
billion worth of light fixtures annually under brand names such as
Lithonia and Peerless, decided to use Red Hat’s Advanced Server
version of the Linux operating system to run Oracle’s 9i RAC
database software atop a group of Dell Computer servers. The system
is replacing Windows servers for running human resources and
manufacturing databases, Red Hat and Acuity said Thursday at the
OracleWorld conference (formerly known as Oracle OpenWorld) in San
Francisco…”