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Subject: Re: Why no SAP nor DB2 on FreeBSD ?
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Saifi Khan wrote:
> Hi all:
>=20
> In continuation of my investigation of Oracle, i also noticed
> that there is:
>  . no SAP for FreeBSD
>  . no DB2 for FreeBSD
>  . no Sybase ASE for FreeBSD
>  . no Informix for FreeBSD=20
>=20
> Discouing PostgreSql installations, effectively enterprise
> database setups have given FreeBSD a miss.=20
> What could be reason for this ?

An obvious guess would be that the userbase is too small and that makes
it unprofitable to support the products on FreeBSD.


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