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1. 1. Eastern States Oracle Applications Users Group Website

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   Published on: 7/24/2002   Last Visited: 10/18/2003

   Bill Dunham, BOSS Corporation
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   Bill Dunham, BOSS Corporation

2. 2. Earthweb IT Management: Enterprise Applications: Who's Afraid of Linux? (Part 2)

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   Published on: 6/8/2002   Last Visited: 6/8/2002

   For instance, BOSS Corp., a Duluth, Ga., systems integrator, was working with a $100 million manufacturing firm which was eager to run Oracle 11i on Linux, according to Bill Dunham, BOSS's ERP practice director. The client was already using Linux for firewalls and proxy servers, and estimated that running Oracle applications on Linux would be three times less expensive than running it on Unix systems from vendors like H-P, IBM, or Sun.
   
   Ellison's warning at AppsWorld made the firm reconsider its plan. But in the end it decided to proceed, and the project is now up and running in a test environment. The installation has been trouble-free, according to Dunham, and the project is actually ahead of schedule. One key to its success, in the executive's opinion: both BOSS and the client already had IT employees with Linux experience in-house.
   
   Dunham says other BOSS Corp. clients are beginning to express interest in running Oracle applications on Linux. The main driver: potential cost savings."We have several Oracle clients that are looking at spending a half million or a million dollars on new hardware," he says. "To them, this configuration looks pretty attractive."
   
   To Dunham, that makes a lot of sense, especially since the first installation went so smoothly. "We don't see any difference," he says, "between implementing Oracle on Linux and implementing it on IBM AIX or HP-UX or Sun Solaris."
   
   Especially for companies with employees used to navigating in the Linux universe, savings of that magnitude will cause many IT managers to give open source platforms a long, searching look.

3. 3. Time

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   Published on: 11/2/2001   Last Visited: 9/11/2003

   Bill Dunham , Vice President, Practice Director, Boss Corporation