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Linux upsets Unix home

  Date:Feb 07 2003

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Picking a Linux cluster to run Oracle, for example, can come with many of the obvious benefits often tied to the Linux space. Customers can hook together a number of relatively powerful but low-cost Intel-based servers all running an inexpensive operating system. If a server fails or the company needs to expand its network, the price of adding new servers can be substantially lower than that of adding a new SMP (symmetric multiprocessing) Unix system, analysts say.


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