Once they roll-out linux desktops to their developers, it'll be interesting to see if pricing for Oracle license drops.
Good chunk of savings on UNIX hardware is ofset by buying more licenses for more Intel boxes. 8000 desktop licenses less for Oracle would be part of justification for price drop on their part.
I may have discovered root (no pun intended) of all spelling problems on Slashdot. It's true and it happened this morning.
One of my NT 4 servers was frozen and I had to hard-reboot the box (which is not my idea of a pleasant way to start the day). Luckily, it came up, so I logged on to check the events. Amongst other stuff, I've found this particular one (it's cut/paste job):
Crash dump is disabled! NT failed to initalize the boot partition paging file for crashdump. This may be because the system has more than 3.8GB of physical memory.
Event ID is 43, source - disk.
Conclusion? There must be plenty of MS employees around here.
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Good chunk of savings on UNIX hardware is ofset by buying more licenses for more Intel boxes. 8000 desktop licenses less for Oracle would be part of justification for price drop on their part.
Oh well, I hope I'll wake up soon...
One of my NT 4 servers was frozen and I had to hard-reboot the box (which is not my idea of a pleasant way to start the day). Luckily, it came up, so I logged on to check the events. Amongst other stuff, I've found this particular one (it's cut/paste job):
Crash dump is disabled! NT failed to initalize the boot partition paging file for crashdump. This may be because the system has more than 3.8GB of physical memory.
Event ID is 43, source - disk.
Conclusion? There must be plenty of MS employees around here.
You may have meant SCO but what you actually posted may be much closer to truth.
His boss is probably not as clever as a guy from your story. If he was, he wouldn't let his whole IT department to stay ignorant.