If we want to dominate the world with Linux, we must have first class commercial software to run on it. My corporation will pay for an ORACLE DBA, not an MySQL or Postgress DBA. When your are critical bussiness activity, you need real support. I know open source often has better support that commercial software, but at some point that's not what matters. It maust exist a contractable support, someone that can be paid and contracted to answer in 24 hours. We are running Oracle and Linux very succesfully, and are happy to pay the license, the support, and everything thats necessary to tell our boss: Hey, our Linux database server with Linux works wonderfully and Oracle support help us.
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If we want to dominate the world with Linux, we must have first class commercial software to run on it. My corporation will pay for an ORACLE DBA, not an MySQL or Postgress DBA. When your are critical bussiness activity, you need real support. I know open source often has better support that commercial software, but at some point that's not what matters. It maust exist a contractable support, someone that can be paid and contracted to answer in 24 hours. We are running Oracle and Linux very succesfully, and are happy to pay the license, the support, and everything thats necessary to tell our boss: Hey, our Linux database server with Linux works wonderfully and Oracle support help us.