[lug] OT: Enterprise DB Migration

[D. Stimits]

George Sexton wrote:
> 
> My $0.02, but IIS is the most horrible software development environment
> conceived by man. It really is bad. I would be happy to pit my developers
> using Servlets against IIS developers any day. Twice as productive, less
> bugs. You can't win with IIS.

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D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us [mailto:lug-admin at lug.boulder.co.us]On
> Behalf Of Kyle Moore
> Sent: 18 June, 2001 8:26 AM
> To: BLUG
> Subject: [lug] OT: Enterprise DB Migration
> 
> Hopefully some of my friends here at BLUG can be of assistance with some
> info. I'm looking for anyone who has migrated or attempted to migrate
> their business to Oracle and would be willing to give me a few minutes
> of their time.
> 
> Our business currently runs a legacy database (UniVerse) on HP-UX with a
> TUI application for internal users and a Visual Basic application served
> over Citrix for our clients. We will deploy a web-based application
> common to both our internal users and clients. We have formed a team to
> evaluate "the big three" (Oracle, DB2, MS SQL) and migrate our
> architecture to whichever one we pick. I have volunteered to research
> Oracle so am looking for people that have done this before to interview.
> 
> I strongly feel that UNIX is the way to go for this application (highly
> available and high performance) but it seems like sort of an uphill
> battle against how cheap MS SQL is and the propaganda that the MS folks
> give when here. They say that 2000 is the most fastest, most stable,
> best smelling OS ever and SQL is a DB to match.
> 
> I appreciate any comments or information offered.
> 
> Thanks
> --
> Kyle Moore
> UNIX SysAdmin
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