Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 21:54:54 -0500 From: "Doug Poland" <doug@polands.org> To: "Mike Meyer" <mwm@mired.org> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org>, <freebsd-database@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: FreeBSD v Linux Message-ID: <NDBBKMNOJKJGAEKJNLIACECOENAA.doug@polands.org> In-Reply-To: <14838.17813.655452.705133@guru.mired.org>
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> -----Original Message----- > From: Mike Meyer [mailto:mwm@mired.org] > Sent: Tuesday, October 24, 2000 21:30 > To: Doug Poland > Cc: questions@freebsd.org; freebsd-database@freebsd.org > Subject: RE: FreeBSD v Linux > > > 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. > > <mike Well, that makes sense. Think of FreeBSD as a Linux distribution and get them to support that. I may be beating a dead horse, but how would that help (in the Sybase realm) with connectivity libraries like Sybase-DB or Sybase-CT. These Sybase libraries are needed for interfaces like PHP to speak to Sybase? I'm sure the other major RDBMs have similar libraries. Regards, Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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