Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 14:18:15 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Owens <owensc@enc.edu> To: "John S. Dyson" <toor@dyson.iquest.net> Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is NCI's "NC Server Suite" FreeBSD-based? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.95q.971114141313.14249G-100000@itsdsv2.enc.edu> In-Reply-To: <199711141906.OAA00694@dyson.iquest.net>
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On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, John S. Dyson wrote:
> Charles Owens said:
> >
> > Since you're obviously someone in touch with many-things-Oracle, please
> > allow me to ask one other question (maybe "family of questions" would be
> > more accurate):
> >
> > In my quick perusal of the "Server Suite" product literature, I see
> > mentioned that Oracle7 Server is part of the deal (or at least an option).
> > Does this mean that Oracle has a *BSD port of Oracle7? Or, do they use an
> > SCO version running with ibcs2 emulation?
> >
> They use an internal port of Oracle7.
> >
> > ---> The _real_ question that I'm looking for an answer to is, if I wanted
> > to run an Oracle database on FreeBSD, what is the optimum
> > approach? I'm sure this is a FAQ, but when I've dug around
> > the list archives in the past I've not gotten far.
> >
> That is a hot-potato that I cannot (and am not competent to) answer.
Obvious (and final) followup:
Can you point me at a FreeBSD-guru-type who _can_ (and won't mind)
answer(ing) this question?
>From your tone above I have this sneaking suspicion that your answer
to this questio willn be an equally terse "no." If so, I understand (I
think). :-)
Thanks,
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