Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 10:03:20 -0500 From: Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com> To: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@jenolan.rutgers.edu>, fullermd@narcissus.ml.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, terry@lambert.org, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Another Linux Religious war (was Re: Commercial vendors registry) Message-ID: <19970415100320.12729@right.PCS> In-Reply-To: <199704151338.GAA09651@freefall.freebsd.org>; from Darren Reed on Apr 04, 1997 at 11:30:17PM %2B1000 References: <199704150400.AAA01046@jenolan.caipgeneral> <199704151338.GAA09651@freefall.freebsd.org>
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On Apr 04, 1997 at 11:30:17PM +1000, Darren Reed wrote: > > I can't see any upper management person ever taking a liking to anything > that is available "freely" on the 'net for mission critical stuff. And > I don't mean your < 100 people small companies, but big organisations > with real budgets. Then maybe you need an enlightened upper management person. :-) The business I work for uses Oracle databases on Sequent machines for our 'mission critical' point of sale support. However, almost all database reporting and manipulation; ie: 'critical' things like daily profit statements, bi-weekly salary & commission payments, and sales tracking is done in perl. We moved our salary/commission history records (which we are required to maintain for about 5 years) from microfiche onto a FreeBSD machine (v2.1.0R), running a free sql-like database, accessed via perl. I would say that this is an example of using "free", "non-supported" tools in a mission-critical environment. However, as the company has about 3000 employees, you may very well consider them to be "small". -- Jonathan
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