My company is currently porting software for a customer. The current software is highly "oracle-intensive" with lots of "business-logic" in the database coded as stored procedures and triggers etc in rather oracle-specific way (that is, not ANSI SQL). The current software is intended for high-end banks etc with high transaction volume. They now want to extend the software to both high-end and low-end customers. And, hence, they want us to port the system to .net and ms-sql server from the current oracle / solaris platform. I am currently proposing the software to be ported to linux instead with oracle staying so that the porting cost is decreased. The customer is ready to listen as long as we provide him convincing economical and technological arguments. His current arguments are: a) oracle is only supported on red hat advanced server (or similar "advanced" servers from other vendors like Suse) which costs $1400 which is no cheaper than windows. b) anything but oracle or ms sql server (specially postgres / mysql etc) can not handle the load he is looking at. c) how do i support low-end customers as oracle is so expensive (about 18 lakhs per CPU + more licensing for extra options like RAC which we need for clustering). d) linux is not good enough in terms of scalablity and high-availability for high-end customers my current arguments are: a) red hat advanced server is not need and if we buy it its only one time cost and not recurring like windows. (Question for the list: am I on the shaky ground here. does anybody provide some data on red hat clusters vs. windows clusters specially from load balancing point of view) b) for very low-end customers, we can evaluate and use Postgres (porting to postgres should be cheaper and faster than porting to ms-sql server) (question for the list: is that really true? what kind of worms I could run into?) d) linux is as good as solaris etc on HA and scalability (Question for the list: is that really true? what could be potential bottlenecks I could run into, say, compared to Solaris) More arguments and options are requested.
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