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Cairns City Council Saves Up to 75 Percent in Software, Hardware and Maintenance Costs Running Oracle on Linux on Dell

Overview Cairns City Council is a local government office servicing the residents of tropical far north Queensland, a popular Australian tourist destination. The Council provides 24/7 facilities and services and administers regulations for a community of over 120,000 people. Its implementation of the Oracle/Dell solution makes it one of the first in Australia to implement enterprise-class business applications on Linux on Dell. This new solution will save the Council up to 75 percent in software, hardware and maintenance costs while also supporting streamlined business processing on a high-performance, highly-available computing platform.

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Publisher	Dell	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	August 2004	Downloads	2
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Infrastructure Management, Database Management, Linux - Open Source

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