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To: Stormweaver who wrote (22088)	5/5/1999 1:07:00 AM
From: Lizzie Tudor	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74651

Well sure most don't but the important ones do... the ERPs do, in fact irix (which is yet another unix variant from SGI) porting issues involving exactly this issue nearly caused SGI to scrap a 40mm ERP implementation in 1996. I don't know why in the world ERP code developed on Sun OS doesn't work on irix (such that we could only push 50 transactions through a second), you tell me, but it happened and the only recourse was to call the irix kernel R&D team, and call the Oracle R&D team, create an irix patch, create an oracle patch (which you only need if you are running ERP)... does this sound efficient to anybody? Not trying to knock unix but come on, this is not acceptable.