From owner-freebsd-chat Mon Mar 10 7:47:12 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 428A237B401 for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 07:47:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net (stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.188]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2B2243F3F for ; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 07:47:10 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from dialup-209.244.104.52.dial1.sanjose1.level3.net ([209.244.104.52] helo=mindspring.com) by stork.mail.pas.earthlink.net with asmtp (SSLv3:RC4-MD5:128) (Exim 3.33 #1) id 18sPUK-000615-00; Mon, 10 Mar 2003 07:46:53 -0800 Message-ID: <3E6CB31A.CF52FA68@mindspring.com> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 07:45:30 -0800 From: Terry Lambert X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dan Langille Cc: Ulf Zimmermann , chat@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Why I hate Redhat and Oracle ..... References: <20030307165322.H11496@seven.alameda.net> <20030308061511.A63630@xeon.unixathome.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-ELNK-Trace: b1a02af9316fbb217a47c185c03b154d40683398e744b8a468fe5fd3472aef0f7524892548ee1007a7ce0e8f8d31aa3f350badd9bab72f9c350badd9bab72f9c Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dan Langille wrote: > > PLEASE ORACLE, PORT YOUR DAMN PRODUCT TO FREEBSD. > > That would be nice. Oracle already runs on FreeBSD. The NCP server was Oracle on FreeBSD; the client machines were NetBSD-based boxed (non-Intel); if FreeBSD had been there, they probably would have used FreeBSD for the clients, too. At the time Whistle played with it, we checked to see just how vanilla it was: Julian tarred up the thing, untarred it, and ran it on a straight FreeBSD box. John Dyson was involved in the port, and some of his fixes to pipe speed and shared memory management were done specifically in support of Oracle. What hasn't happened is that it has not been released by them as a supported product (unless you count the NCP server itself; most of the cost in a product is in support, especially for products like databases, which tend to require a lot of training, hand holding, etc.). Really annoying, since the code ran on FreeBSD long before it ever ran on Linux. 8-(. There was a rumor at one point about Yahoo levering them to get a FreeBSD version released based on actual sales. I don't know what happened there. On the other side of the coin, it al least used to run under the Linux ABI on FreeBSD, at one point, so that may also be an option. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message