From: Mike '/m' 


We moved our Oracle servers from Solaris to Linux (Red Hat) na dhaven't
looked back.  It is a really nice feature of Oracle that it runs on many
different OS environments.  It allows us to have more leverage with the
hardware/OS vendors for better support agreements.

 /m


On Fri, 26 May 2006 00:43:29 +0100, Adam
<""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near the
bridge"> wrote:

>http://www.crn.com/sections/software/software.jhtml?articleId=188103068
>
>" The overall database market grew 8 percent last year to $13.8 billion,
>with Linux and Microsoft SQL Server seeing the strongest momentum,
>according to new research.
>
>Linux was by far the fastest-growing database platform, growing 84
>percent, according to newly released Gartner numbers.
>
>The open-source database segment grew 47 percent over the year, said
>Gartner analyst Colleen Graham. Many companies -- including IBM and
>Oracle -- field Linux databases, but these are not, strictly speaking,
>open source.
>
>Gartner tallies market size annually, but changed its methodology this
>time out to count overall software revenue from databases, including
>support fees. The switch was made to better gauge the impact of the
>open-source entries. Companies like MySQL and Ingres typically charge
>for support and maintenance, not for the software itself.
>
>Overall, Oracle retained its top spot with 48.6 percent market share in
>2005, off slightly from 48.9 percent from the previous year. Its
>estimated revenue grew however from $6.2 billion last year to $6.7
>billion for 2005. "
>
>The problem for sql server is it only runs on windows.....
>
>Adam

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