Oracle and Redhat

Oracle and Redhat

Although this Nokia stuff is going to help a lot with Linux/Redhat credibility.

Despite what people may want to beleive with big databases or mainframes and such a certain amount of downtime is actually tolerable, especially if it's possible to scedual it. Databases are MIA for minutes at a time. Websites go down, customers trying to fill out forms online with the 'e-commerce' sometimes get the 'try again in 15 minutes' errors. It happens to everybody. File systems, DNS servers, routing equipment. All these will end up being flaky at one point in another...

But 'Carrier-Grade' means something special when it comes to reliability. Real-time interactive communications demands a different sort of mentality then what you typically get with computer systems. With these people they demand the whole trail of nines in 99.9999% aviability and they spend a crapload of money and will pick the best solutions aviable irregardless of cost, because it's always going to be worth it to them.

Then the idea that they would pick Redhat out of all the possible solutions simply because that is what they feel that they need will provide quite a bit of advertising fodder for Redhat.

Imagine that. If people need a sort of file server or website or database backend (or better yet VoIP with Asterix or whatnot) and pointy-haired boss is worried about that 'non-standard open source stuff' a admin only has to say:
"Redhat is good enough for the telecommunications industry, but it's not good enough for you? Seriously.. common man."

:-p

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