The clowns at Gartner again
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| bstadil Nov 30, 2004 8:54 AM EDT |
Andrew Butler, a vice-president at Gartner, said, Linux has not yet matured enough to run the largest databases "You cannot run Linux on huge databases because it does not scale," What is it with these guys. He probably meant run Large DBs on Linux but aside from that maybe ask Oracle about running large scale DBs on Linux. |
| AnonymousCoward Nov 30, 2004 1:43 PM EDT |
By "large" he must mean "in excess of a thousand nodes". (-: But seriously folks, these reports really are just so much hot air. The practical statements from the banks are encouraging, clearly showing big takeup by extremely conservative users based on pragmatism not zealotry, but the sales figures are pretty much arbitrary. Not everyone buys servers with the OS software, and where in there does he account for people doing stuff like switching existing Sun and MS-Windows servers across to Linux by the simple expedient of popping in a free Debian or Mandrake (or FreeBSD) distribution? It's pretty obvious that going the other way can't be done legally, so any such conversions have to tilt towards FOSS and the vast majority would go unreported, probably even inside the organisation itself. |
| bstadil Nov 30, 2004 3:37 PM EDT |
AC, I agree with your post however the notion that financial institutions are "extremely conservative users" is not correct. IT is recognized as a significant competitive advantage in the financial sector and they are at the forefront of adopting new technologies. We are not talking about transactional services like retail banking etc. but pricing services characterized by Derivatives and the like. |
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