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From: "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org>
To: "James Wilde" <james.wilde@telia.com>
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Subject: RE: FreeBSD v Linux
Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 08:59:36 -0500
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James,

This is pure speculation on my part, but, here goes...

Background:
I was a Sun/Solaris user in the early '90's when 
the big RDBMS/GIS/CAD vendors were all running on
the various Unix's (before intel Unix).  Supporting 
all these flavors for them was a nightmare and when 
NT became a viable platform, they started jumping
ship.  The vendors want fewer platforms to support,
not more.

Oracle is probably the exception here as they've
always used their multi-platform user base as a
selling advantage.  That said, the user-base of
Linux has grown to a point where Oracle decided
it was profitable or they felt they had to be
on that platform.

If the BSD world could get a major RDBMS vendor
to release a native BSD port, it would be a 
tremendous boost for the BSD world.  However,
we, as the database BSD world, must convince
them that it's in they're best interest to 
port to BSD.  This means being ready and able
to pay for the software and support.  

So if you're interested in Oracle for BSD, 
contact them and tell them you're ready to
pay for the product on BSD and maybe, someday,
when enough of us have done that, we'll see
it.


Regards,
Doug 


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of James Wilde
> Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 04:00
> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
> Subject: RE: FreeBSD v Linux
> 
> 
> I've been following this thread and I've checked the Oracle and FreeBSD
> sites.  And I've discovered that Oracle is not released in a 
> FreeBSD version
> but is released in a Linux version which - apparently - runs even 
> better on
> FreeBSD with Linux emulation.  Unfortunately that's not a 
> combination likely
> to have an immediate appeal to people concerned with operational
> reliability.  And since they use the Oracle DBMS, TPTB at my new job have
> opted for Sun Solaris.
> 
> However, they have made an exception.  Since I said I was 
> familiar (!) with
> FreeBSD they have suggested that, since they are now getting too 
> big to use
> hosts for name resolution, my first project when I start with them next
> month will be to set up a name server running on FreeBSD.
> 
> So my question is does anyone know whether/when Oracle plans a FreeBSD
> version?
> 
> mvh/regards
> 
> James
> 
> 
> 
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