Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 14:14:18 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty <hasty@rah.star-gate.com> To: Julian Elischer <julian@whistle.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Another Linux Religious war (was Re: Commercial vendors registry) Message-ID: <199704152114.OAA01746@rah.star-gate.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Apr 1997 12:31:40 PDT." <3353D79C.167EB0E7@whistle.com>
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>From The Desk Of Julian Elischer : > > Then maybe you need an enlightened upper management person. :-) > > > > The business I work for uses Oracle databases on Sequent machines for our > > 'mission critical' point of sale support. However, almost all database > > reporting and manipulation; ie: 'critical' things like daily profit > > statements, bi-weekly salary & commission payments, and sales tracking is > > done in perl. > > I heard a very solid supportable rumour that Oracle may soon be > suppoorting FreeBSD and possibly Linux in an attempt to reduce the > reasons that people > have to go to NT. > > I'm planning on following the rumour up but if the rumour is true then > Larry himself knows about FreeBSD.. > I will be surprise if Larry does not know about FreeBSD. You see Venture Capital people talk a lot and there a few startups in the Valley which use FreeBSD including the one that I was part of. Personally, I dealt with people who know Larry. Cheers, Amancio
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