[POLL] linux in the enterprise server room?

[Douglas J Hunley]

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Brad De Vries spewed electrons into the ether that resembled:
> Douglas, what I think you need is to throw away the
> Baan, PeopleSoft and SAP and replace them with QAD's
> MFG/PRO which runs on Progress Software (or Oracle if

I don't run them, thankfully...

> you really want it.)  Then, after you've saved a
> couple of million the first month, you could convince
> Sterling to fix the _names_ of their products and port
> to Linux.
>
> Why would they name something like:
>    Gentran:Server for UNIX Workstation
> which runs on WinXX only

I always thought that was funny. there's a story there. I used to work for 
Sterling.. if you want to know all about that fiasco, ping me off-list.

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Douglas J Hunley (doug at hunley.homeip.net) - Linux User #174778
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	and http://jobs.linux-sxs.org

The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean 
you're an artist.
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