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On Tue, 8 Sep 1998, Bill Pechter wrote:

>According to news.com:
>
>http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,26094,00.html?st.ne.fd.mdh
>
>"Oracle is developing marketing and technology partnerships with
>U.S.-based Red Hat Software and VA Research, Europe and North
>America-based SuSE, and Japanese firm Pacific HiTech.
>All four develop software for the Linux market."
>
>What are we doing in this area for FreeBSD...

	What are YOU doing in this area for FreeBSD? Oracle (or some other
company for that matter) will not make a port with out a lot of advocacy
on our side. This includes (but not limited to) phone calls, sending mail
to appropriate people, and simply pulling your "old boy" connections. In
other words: do something. :)

-- Yan

>
>Bill
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