Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 12:12:57 -0600 From: Chad Perrin <perrin@apotheon.com> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <20090925181257.GD28805@guilt.Savvis> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909242105520.14887@freebsd> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909242105520.14887@freebsd>
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--LKTjZJSUETSlgu2t Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 09:15:43PM +0530, Saifi Khan wrote: >=20 > i noticed that there is no Oracle available for FreeBSD > http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/index.html I unfortunately don't have anything to offer as a direct answer to that, other than perhaps "Oracle's short-sightedness". I wonder why you ask, though. Do you plan to use Oracle for some specific "real world" purpose? Are you simply trying to learn about Oracle? Are you just curious about the lack of Oracle for FreeBSD? Depending on your reasons for asking, it might be worthwhile to investigate alternatives. FTD apparently found Oracle to fall short of expectations, and EnterpriseDB's variant of PostgreSQL rose to the challenge: http://tinyurl.com/yd9lon5 (I used TinyURL to avoid running afoul of line-wrap, et cetera.) It might be worth looking into. It's easy (relative to most DMBS-to-DBMS migrations) to migrate a database from Oracle to PostgreSQL, too, thanks to substantial feature parity between the two. There's a slightly different write-up of the FTD migration on EnterpriseDB's "success stories" page: http://www.enterprisedb.com/learning/success.do --=20 Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ] --LKTjZJSUETSlgu2t Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.13 (FreeBSD) iEYEARECAAYFAkq9CCkACgkQ9mn/Pj01uKU09gCfQj8m7QVnQvw55uktZaaV8KPb kl4AoKS1UPGPxBKms0w8zCoFdnQxMSAn =w73S -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --LKTjZJSUETSlgu2t--
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