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Date:      Tue, 15 Apr 1997 12:31:40 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com>
To:        Jonathan Lemon <jlemon@americantv.com>
Cc:        Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>, "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:  <3353D79C.167EB0E7@whistle.com>
References:  <199704150400.AAA01046@jenolan.caipgeneral> <199704151338.GAA09651@freefall.freebsd.org> <19970415100320.12729@right.PCS>

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> 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.

I heard a very solid supportable rumour that Oracle may soon be
suppoorting FreeBSD and possibly Linux in an attempt to reduce the
reasons that people
have to go to NT.

I'm planning on following the rumour up but if the rumour is true then
Larry himself knows about FreeBSD..

> 
> 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".

I know of FreeBSD being used in systems that handle about $60,000,000
per day.

> --
> Jonathan



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