Downtime no more

摘要

When MLT Vacations scrapped its pricey Sun hardware for a cluster of IBM Linux blade servers to support its Oracle database, it expected to see savings. But the company got something even more: a database environment it truly could depend on 24/7. That was "icing on the cake," says Chris Corona, manager of systems services for the online provider of travel packages, in Edina, Minn.