From owner-freebsd-database Thu May 13 22:10:52 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (pinnacle.internet.co.nz [210.48.55.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DE5815425; Thu, 13 May 1999 22:10:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jonc@pinnacle.co.nz) Received: from kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz [202.37.163.2]) by kiwi.pinnacle.co.nz (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA04540; Fri, 14 May 1999 17:02:40 +1200 (NZST) Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 17:02:40 +1200 (NZST) From: Jonathan Chen To: Philip Hallstrom Cc: Alfred Perlstein , Soren Schmidt , Daniel Haischt , freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apache/PHP/Oracle8... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message