From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 24 19:55:10 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.new.rr.com (mail1.rdc-detw.rr.com [24.30.0.23]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28DA837B4C5; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:55:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from judah ([24.164.246.248]) by mail1.new.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.357.35); Tue, 24 Oct 2000 22:55:26 -0400 From: "Doug Poland" To: "Mike Meyer" Cc: , Subject: RE: FreeBSD v Linux Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 21:54:54 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <14838.17813.655452.705133@guru.mired.org> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Meyer [mailto:mwm@mired.org] > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 21:30 > To: Doug Poland > Cc: questions@freebsd.org; freebsd-database@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: FreeBSD v Linux > > > Doug Poland writes: > > I've followed others efforts to get Oracle/Sybase/Informix > > running on FreeBSD. I'm curious to know if anyone actually > > is running these servers in a production role. I know > > two Oracle consulting firms and they always recommend > > Unix and almost always recommend Linux. There's no way > > they're going to put a paying client on an unsupported > > platform. The risk is to high and there is no benefit. > > To the client and the consulting firm, it's just a box > > that runs Oracle. BSD will never be that box if Oracle > > won't support it. > > The thing to remember - the real point, which I did a good job of > hiding - is that there are two ways for a vendor to support BSD. One > involves creating another port, and doing all the work implied by > that. The other involves adding another "Linux distribution" to their > regression tests for the Linux port. The latter is liable to have a > lot less overhead than the former. It could be zero, if FreeBSD > replaces a Linux distribution. > > My database needs are adequately met by PostGreSQL. However, my WP > needs aren't met by anything freely available, and I'm not > particularly happy with the one commercial offering for FreeBSD. I've > got the Linux version of FrameMaker running under emulation > (admittedly overkill of the order of commuting in a Formula 1 > Ferrari), plan on purchasing it when it becomes available, and on > badgering them to make "FreeBSD Linux emulation" something they > support, because I figure that's more likely than getting them to > support a native FreeBSD port. > >