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RedSheriff Transacts to a Lower TCO

Overview RedSheriff completed the migration of its core transaction processing systems to the PostgreSQL database on Intel servers. RedSheriff's chief technology officer said although the move has been an "Incremental and ongoing process", it was based on lower TCO. The company began the transition in September 2002 with the principal costs being associated with integrating the Postgres backend into their systems. Before switching to PostgreSQL on FreeBSD and Linux, RedSheriff had used a number of database systems, including Oracle 8 and 9, MSSQL Server and proprietary database technologies. It made a lot more sense from a business point of view to spend $10,000 at a time on Intel servers, rather than spending $500,000 on a single Unix server.

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Publisher	IDG (International Data Group)	File Format	HTML
Date Published	April 2007
Format	Case Studies
Topics	Linux - Open Source, ROI - TCO, Database Applications

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