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Originally Posted by Neil
I have to say in my experience of working with the oil majors they all use Solaris if they aren't using Windows based servers. The only time I've seen some flavour of Linux in use is on workstations.
Linux has its place (it's great for web hosting for example - this web site is hosted on a dedicated Red Hat Linux server) but I wouldn't want to have something like Oracle or SAP running on a bunch of Linux boxes.
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BP and ConocoPhillips are two examples of majors using Linux clusters for seismic data processing and reservoir simulation.......many of the major geophysical data processing centres (Fugro, CGG) have already moved this way also. The company I work with, Apache, is also currently evaluating Linux with a view to phasing out Solaris in the near-term.
Perhaps this isnt the direction industry is taking for Oracle/SAP, but in the geoscience and reservoir engineering sphere, where volumes of data and requirements for processing power are orders of magnitude greater, Linux-based systems are steadily taking over.