From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 30 10:49:34 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA29186 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 10:49:34 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from server.escritorio (wkn.com.br [200.247.19.153]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA29090 for ; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 10:48:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from lenzi@bsi.com.br) Received: from marise.escritorio (lenzi@marise.escritorio [192.168.22.3]) by server.escritorio (8.8.3/8.8.5) with SMTP id PAA05119; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 15:49:39 GMT Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 15:51:03 +0000 (GMT) From: Sergio Lenzi X-Sender: lenzi@marise.escritorio To: Jonathan Chen cc: Irfan Akber , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oracle On Free BSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Fri, 8 Sep 1995, Irfan Akber wrote: > > [Note: your mail-setup is incorrect - you're mailing from very far in > the past!] > > > Hi, > > > > I was planning to run Oracle 7.0 on FreeBSD. Does FreeBSD support that, > > will I be able to run Oracle on it. Please reply as it is very important > > for me to find out. > > The people you really to ask is Oracle. To the best of my knowledge, > there isn't a native version of Oracle for FreeBSD; if there was a > large enough demand, perhaps.. > > You could try running SCO version on FreeBSD, and see whether that > works. It works and very good. Indeed it is reported to be 7 times faster running o FreeBSD than SCO on the same DB on the Same Machine. Just install Oracle on a SCO machine configure it and then transfer the whole thing to FreeBSD. Sergio Lenzi Unix Consult