Re: [Nolug] call for help: white papers to show my CIO regarding Linux, Unix & Oracle

On Wed, 2003-04-30 at 19:00, Andrew S. Johnson wrote:
> On Wednesday 30 April 2003 06:39 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
>
> > But... Since Oracle licenses are based per-CPU, we look for getting
> > faster CPUs inside the same box, instead of more of the same speed
> > CPUs, when upgrading.
>
> True, now, but they've changed their licensing more than once in the past.
> I thought that they were currently licensing on "processor units" or something
> like that, where you take the processor speed time the number of processors
> time X dollars. Since we have a corporate agreement, I don't have to worry
> about the details anymore.

Lucky you. When we were a division of Lockheed Martin we also did, but
not anymore...
 
> > However, I'm "efforting" to convince my boss that the "Unix people"
> > should try developing on Linux instead of HP-UX. Thus, that's why
> > I started the thread "white papers to show my CIO regarding Linux,
> > Unix & Oracle" in the 1st place.
>
> I haven't checked Oracle's web site lately, but they never lacked for
> whitepapers in the past. What other "sources" does your CIO consider
> "reputable?" Gartner, IDC, ??? Others I don't know?

Any BigCorp or analyst firm would do...

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