[TriLUG] Question: Oracle on Linux?

[Brian Weaver]

On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 15:24, Roy Vestal wrote:
> I'm not directly involved, but we found that our company saved
> $2,200/month running Oracle 9i Enterprise over a Red Hat cluster. This
> was over running it on Solaris, and almost $5,000/month over Windows
> based.
> 
> Red Hat has some great white papers on it. As well as the Oracle site.
> 
> HTH.
> 

Roy,

I don't doubt your numbers, but if it's not confidential where did all
that savings come from? Was it purely from the saving in licensing cost
of the OS or was it combination of licensing, hardware, and support? I'd
be interested in rough breakdowns if you know them. I keep hearing "We
saved X dollars using Linux." However, I hardly ever see a breakdown on
where people saved using Linux.

Thanks

-Weave