I'm working with a global organization with approximately 5000 employees and close to 1B$ in revenues. It uses Oracle Applications ERP and shortly CRM as well, both 11i. They are both mission critical applications and based on Oracle DB 9i. The hardware is Sun.

In the near future, and in conjunction with the CRM deployment there needs to be a hardware upgrade because the current install is close to its limits. The organization accepts that the direction of the future is Linux, but is concerned that it is too early. Oracle's 10g version obviously prefers Linux, but its too new and isn't considered for now so the versions will remain for this upgrade.

I'm looking for success stories of major enterprises with these versions which are running mission critical applications based on Oracle 9i, on Linux today. The fact that it can be done isn't a question, the challange is to show that it is mainstream and with low risk. Important that my examples will not be of what are obvious early adapters (Amazon, Network Appliance) but of regular corporates.

Any pointers welcome.

I work as a contractor for the Department of Veterans Affairs. Currently I am running three separate Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS servers running Oracle 8i as a storage point for tracking security events that are detected by intrusion detection systems that are located throughout the nation. The largest of these databases is known to drift above 1 TB of data on a fairly regular basis.

In my experience neither Red Hat nor Oracle have posed problems in dealing with the mountain of data that we deal with on a daily basis. Soon I suspect that one of our three boxes will be retiring and the server that will replace it will be RHEL AS 3.0 running Oracle 9i, to date all of our preliminary data causes me no reason to be concerned that it will not work as well as the solution that it will be replacing.

While the VA is not a corporation per see, they are very demanding in regards to their expectations and are not prone to chase after pipe dreams in hopes of a big payoff. They simply demand that the solutions do what they are designed to do without fail.

I work for SAP and we have many customers (small, medium, large, and extra large) that have shown tremendous success with SAP running on Oracle 9i and Linux. I know your only interested in the latter 2 components but here is a link that shows some success stories: http://www50.sap.com/linux/brochures.asp

Hope this helps

Regards,
Dominic Uliano