Date: Sat, 25 Jul 1998 14:02:15 -0700 (PDT) From: "Jan B. Koum " <jkb@best.com> To: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> Cc: bear@pacificnet.net, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hardware and Stuff Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980725140030.11451B-100000@shell6.ba.best.com> In-Reply-To: <199807251338.GAA21029@usr09.primenet.com>
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If John Dyson has a contact of a suit we can all call or eMail and
beg for an oracle port to go commercial, it would be great.
-- Yan
Jan Koum jkb@best.com | "Turn up the lights; I don't want
www.FreeBSD.org -- The Power to Serve | to go home in the dark."
Observation #1: The more security consultants get paid, the longer their
sentences are
On Sat, 25 Jul 1998, Terry Lambert wrote:
>> Develop, implement and start the database. We will populate it. :)
>> Put a www interface to it.. it would be really cool if you can get
>> one of the coming out Linux port of Informix/Oracle to work too.
>> You don't need anyone's permission to do this. FreeBSD is just as
>> your OS as it is mine.
>
>Oracle runs on FreeBSD, and ran on FreeBSD before they thought of a
>Linux port.
>
>NCI, the company John Dyson works for, is a subsidiary of Oracle
>(Network Computers Inc. is a Larry Ellison company).
>
>The NCI server (currently) runs FreeBSD, and runs a copy of Oracle
>to back up some of the network computing initiative.
>
>I have it on good authority that Yahoo runs this port of Oracle, as well.
>
>It would be worthwhile to convince Oracle to sell the port commercially,
>especially given their announcement of a Linux port being started. This
>is one area where FreeBSD can beat Linux to the gun...
>
>
> Terry Lambert
> terry@lambert.org
>---
>Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present
>or previous employers.
>
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