http://stephensnexus.com/2006/10/06/university-of-oracle-red-herring-cover/ Dave Stephens on technology and business trends Wed, 08 Dec 2010 23:20:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://stephensnexus.com/2006/10/06/university-of-oracle-red-herring-cover/#comment-1542 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 22:03:14 +0000 http://procurement.wordpress.com/2006/10/06/university-of-oracle-red-herring-cover/#comment-1542 The article link above talks about vAudit’s decision to use Oracle over an open source alternative. And vAudit’s decision may make sense. Businesses value “1 throat to choke”. But then there’s Red Hat for Linux and mySQL for database. Support is available & less expensive than Oracle. So it goes back to product & what meets your requirements. You could build your products on a closed source stack if there was no other way.. But open source keeps right on chipping away. Why didn’t vAudit use Microsoft? After all, then the O/S, development tools, and database would all be supported by a single firm…

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