From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jan 1 00:11:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id AAA29335 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 1 Jan 1998 00:11:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from core.acroal.com (firewall0.acroal.com [209.24.61.154]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id AAA29325 for ; Thu, 1 Jan 1998 00:11:38 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@core.acroal.com) Received: from localhost (freebsd@localhost) by core.acroal.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id AAA01282; Thu, 1 Jan 1998 00:11:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd@core.acroal.com) Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1998 00:11:32 -0800 (PST) From: FreeBSD Hacker To: Adam Turoff cc: Atipa , freebsd-hackers Subject: RE: Informix on FreeBSD (maybe) (fwd) In-Reply-To: <34A97B63@smginc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Can someone explain to me what would be involved in implementing a database engine specifically for FreeBSD. How much work likely, if you were to work from scratch, and what kind of support would you want to offer for other platforms (i.e. Windoze). If it were specifically Tuned to be a high performance solution on a FreeBSD box and part of the Distribution, couldn't that just possibly attract the kind of High End contributions that FreeBSD needs? In essence if you were to clone a commercial database system which one would it be?