From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Oct 24 19:29:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (okc-27-149-77.mmcable.com [24.27.149.77]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E472237B4C5 for ; Tue, 24 Oct 2000 19:29:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 70628 invoked by uid 100); 25 Oct 2000 02:29:41 -0000 From: Mike Meyer MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14838.17813.655452.705133@guru.mired.org> Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 21:29:41 -0500 (CDT) To: "Doug Poland" Cc: , Subject: RE: FreeBSD v Linux In-Reply-To: References: <14838.4762.613284.404127@guru.mired.org> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 10) "Capitol Reef" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug Poland writes: > I've followed others efforts to get Oracle/Sybase/Informix > running on FreeBSD. I'm curious to know if anyone actually > is running these servers in a production role. I know > two Oracle consulting firms and they always recommend > Unix and almost always recommend Linux. There's no way > they're going to put a paying client on an unsupported > platform. The risk is to high and there is no benefit. > To the client and the consulting firm, it's just a box > that runs Oracle. BSD will never be that box if Oracle > won't support it. The thing to remember - the real point, which I did a good job of hiding - is that there are two ways for a vendor to support BSD. One involves creating another port, and doing all the work implied by that. The other involves adding another "Linux distribution" to their regression tests for the Linux port. The latter is liable to have a lot less overhead than the former. It could be zero, if FreeBSD replaces a Linux distribution. My database needs are adequately met by PostGreSQL. However, my WP needs aren't met by anything freely available, and I'm not particularly happy with the one commercial offering for FreeBSD. I've got the Linux version of FrameMaker running under emulation (admittedly overkill of the order of commuting in a Formula 1 Ferrari), plan on purchasing it when it becomes available, and on badgering them to make "FreeBSD Linux emulation" something they support, because I figure that's more likely than getting them to support a native FreeBSD port.