Are There Large RDBMS Using Linux?

Jason Perlow of Linux Magazine writes:" With all of the recent computer press coverage of Amazon and Intel converting their web servers and other front end application servers to Linux, many of these stories neglect to mention that the back end systems these companies use still rely on commercial Unixes like Solaris, AIX and HPUX to host their RDBMSes (Oracle, DB2, Sybase, Informix) for their mission critical transactional applications and data mining. Are there any companies out there actively using Linux to host a mission-critical RDBMS ^? or looking to replace UNIX with Linux for this purpose?"

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Re:Real Unix is a lot better for mission Critical.

[HeUnique]

It is really depend on your card's X driver (the module in XFree 4.x or the X server in XFree 3.X)

I got 3 machines at home runnning Linux day and night with X running with Matrox G400 - I had few problems with DRI few months ago but now its rock stable..

At my previous work I had been using NVidia Geforce-2 with their binary only drivers on Compaqs machines that I installed to all the developers (all developers running X and KDE) - had tons of problems with it (3D freezes the machine, exiting from X gives you a green "ghost" [yes, I didn't compile rivafb!] and some random lockups) - so it's really about drivers. Same shit with ATI's drivers and Windows..