Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 09:58:51 +1000 (EST) From: Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: jlemon@americantv.com (Jonathan Lemon) Cc: avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au, 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: <199704160006.RAA22589@freefall.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <19970415100320.12729@right.PCS> from "Jonathan Lemon" at Apr 15, 97 10:03:20 am
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In some mail from Jonathan Lemon, sie said: > > 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. :-) I think they're more interested in political games personally ;) > 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". Well, maybe times are changing.
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