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From: "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org>
To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org>
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Subject: RE: FreeBSD v Linux
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 22:47:08 -0500
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Meyer [mailto:mwm@mired.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 22:07
> To: Doug Poland
> Cc: questions@freebsd.org; freebsd-database@freebsd.org;
> freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: FreeBSD v Linux
> 
> 
> Doug Poland writes:
> > Well, that makes sense.  Think of FreeBSD as a Linux distribution
> > and get them to support that.  I may be beating a dead horse, but
> > how would that help (in the Sybase realm) with connectivity libraries
> > like Sybase-DB or Sybase-CT.  These Sybase libraries are needed for
> > interfaces like PHP to speak to Sybase?  I'm sure the other major
> > RDBMs have similar libraries.  
> 
> I honestly don't know. Can you link FreeBSD binaries against static
> Linux libraries and get sane results? Can a binary use shared
> libraries for both Linux (via emulation) and FreeBSD?
> 
> I know you can run a Linux cross-compiler on FreeBSD with Linux
> emulation and get binaries that run under that emulation. If worst
> comes to worst, you could do that.
> 
> 	<mike
> 
And herein lies my point.  It starts getting quite complicated
and beyond your advanced database programmer/part-time Unix
guy.  Which brings us back to, where?  A native FreeBSD Oracle
vs. an Oracle supported Linux distribution for BSD?  

I'm for official support of either flavor.  Something that I 
can take to a client and say, "Here, we'll set you up on a
Unix box running Sybase ASE 12.x and it'll be one screaming
database server."  And neither the client, nor Sybase cares
that it's FreeBSD, it just works.

Thanks for the discussion Mike,

Doug 



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