From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jan 15 14:21:56 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2B56516A4CE; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 14:21:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from chen.org.nz (chen.org.nz [210.54.19.51]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 66C1443D2D; Thu, 15 Jan 2004 14:21:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jonc@chen.org.nz) Received: by chen.org.nz (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 671DB13651; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:21:52 +1300 (NZDT) Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:21:52 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen To: Matt Olander Message-ID: <20040115222152.GA92221@grimoire.chen.org.nz> References: <20040115135949.F81664@knight.ixsystems.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040115135949.F81664@knight.ixsystems.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Oracle Meeting Results X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2004 22:21:56 -0000 On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 01:59:50PM -0800, Matt Olander wrote: > Today Peter Wemm and I met with Edward Screven the CTO at Oracle to > discuss the possiblity of Oracle on FreeBSD natively. The meeting went > very well overall and Edward seemed to be cool with the idea. > > Of course, the Oracle marketing engine is concerned if there is a viable > market for gearing up to do something of this nature. > > What we ended up discussing is a 'not officially supported' development > version of Oracle downloadable from their website after filling in the > standard who, what, where, and why type of form with the typical > disclaimers, which I believe they already do for the other development > versions. This is really *GOOD* news! Thanks for the work guys! -- Jonathan Chen ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925