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Date:      Fri, 14 May 1999 17:02:40 +1200 (NZST)
From:      Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
To:        Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>, Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, Daniel Haischt <danielh@privat.toplink.de>, freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Apache/PHP/Oracle8...
Message-ID:  <Pine.SC5.4.10.9905141657100.3444-100000@kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905132127340.85864-100000@burlap.eilio.com>

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On Thu, 13 May 1999, Philip Hallstrom wrote:

> All -
> 	Someone sent me email privately saying that this might do more
> harm than good.  That it would be viewed with annoyance from Oracle.  He
> mentioned something about Xi graphics not supporting FreeBSD and something
> Jordan Hubbard had said.  I didn't see that thread so don't know what
> happened.
> 
> What do people think?  I'd really like to hear from anyone on the FreeBSD
> team... about the last thing I want is to hurt it...

Oracle is out there to make money. If they perceive a market for
FreeBSD, they will release a version for it. We *do* need to make
noise. No noise = no market demand.

The way I understand regarding the XiG incident was that there were
people asking for a release, but when they released something, no one
bought anything.

I don't think that will be a problem in the case of database products.

Jonathan Chen
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