From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 28 08:29:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA01728 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 08:29:35 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xwin.webweaver.net (xwin.webweaver.net [208.138.29.35]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA01714 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 08:29:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nicole@xwin.webweaver.net) Received: (from nicole@localhost) by xwin.webweaver.net (8.8.8/8.8.7) id HAA06197; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 07:27:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nicole) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.2 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <199808141703.MAA13793@horton.iaces.com> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 07:27:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicole Harrington To: "Paul T. Root" Subject: Re: Oracle on Linux... Arggh! :( Cc: questions@freefall.freebsd.org, victor@mp.lex.gob.gt, hamellr@dsinw.com, (Luis rios) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id IAA01719 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 14-Aug-98 Paul T. Root wisely wrote: > In a previous message, Luis rios said: >> I'm very irriated about Oracle's port to Linux. We all know that FreeBSD >> is a much more stable OS. We need more visibility for FreeBSD. At least >> Oracle should develop for both platforms... > > Linux like Windows is powered by marketing not technical merit. > > If you want a finiatially sucessful product, especially in the computer > industry, you need marketing, not a good product. > Yes but if everyone writes to oracle and says "hey where is the FreeBSD port" in sufficiate numbers, that would also cause them to take notice. If everone on this list did it, That is a heck of a start... Nicole > > -- > I can make more generals, but horses cost money - A. Lincoln > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message nicole@webweaver.net - http://www.webweaver.net/ webmistress@dangermouse.org - http://www.dangermouse.org/ ------------------------------------------------- -- Powered by Coka Cola and FreeBSD -- - Stong enough for a man - But made for a Woman -- -- Microsoft: What bug would you like today? -- - I tried an internal modem once, but it hurt when I walked -- --------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message