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Subject: Re: Oracle: touchy subject maybe... 
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"Lars Thegler" writes:
> Rumour has it that Oracle at one time actually *did* develop a native
> FreeBSD version, but due to considerations involving the high cost of
> supporting the product on yet another OS, seen in relation to the expected
> demand, they never released it...
> 

I know a person who works for Oracle and this person saw a FreeBSD directory
on one of the development machines 2 or 3 years ago. Nothing ever came of
the effort.

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Gary Jennejohn / garyj@jennejohn.org gj@freebsd.org gj@denx.de