Given the preponderance of info that suggests the decision to continue was made in opposition to the data at hand, I strongly suspect the management OS is Windows. That platform has the apps that C-level and vice-president level decisions are based on using pretty graphs prepared by minions and bean counters.<br>
<br>A forced switch to a new platform would require a rewrite of a lot of code that would also entail a rethink of the underlying math and principles (business principles - almost an oxymoron).<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 9:51 AM, Chris Fowler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cfowler@outpostsentinel.com">cfowler@outpostsentinel.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 09:08 -0400, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
> If BP had used LINUX for their modelling application platform...<br>
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</div>A lot of these companies do use Linux heavily. Years back was working<br>
with two companies in Houston, TX that use large Linnux clusters to<br>
analyze survey data to pinpoint possible locations for oil and other<br>
minerals. These companies primary existence was based on their ability<br>
to locate the goods. They did not drill. They took surveys using<br>
various equipment and used rooms for of Linux nodes to crunch numbers<br>
and create positive matches for their customers.<br>
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One of these companies used either Oracle or SQL Server on Windows as a<br>
data store then the Linux clusters would download that data and crunch<br>
them.<br>
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