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A UserLinux manifestoA UserLinux manifestoPosted Dec 3, 2003 12:15 UTC (Wed) by Wol (guest, #4433)In reply to: A UserLinux manifesto by dang Parent article: A UserLinux manifesto I was thinking exactly that ... Just leave the dinosaurs like Oracle alone. While we don't believe in "one task, one server", the reality is it pays. What happens if your Oracle is certified on RH-X, your D3 is certified on RH-Y, your mainframe app is certified on SuSE-Z, ad infinitum ... And if you've got a mission-critical app, you just leave it running on the supported box and that's it. The big problem is when you don't want to upgrade your app, and then the OS-vendor drops support for that rev... While, as a SuSE fan, I don't like this "certified for RH" lark, that is what the LSB is there to address, and as people move over to running Free Software or Open Source, the dinosaurs will just disappear. Take Oracle - at the moment it's marketing hot air keeping them afloat. DB2 is marketed far less agressively but is likely to start doing them some serious damage, and MySQL/PostgreSQL are likely to start taking noticeable chunks out of the pair of them before long. Let the dinosaurs stand tall. The mammals are raiding their nests :-) Cheers,
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