From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 18 02:49:12 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id CAA11174 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 02:49:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from docenti.ing.unipi.it (docenti.ing.unipi.it [131.114.28.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA11160 for ; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 02:48:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gabriele@localhost) by docenti.ing.unipi.it (8.8.5/8.8.5) id LAA16054; Mon, 18 Aug 1997 11:45:47 +0200 (MET DST) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 1997 11:45:46 +0200 (MET DST) From: Gabriele Cecchetti To: Randy DuCharme cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oracle or ?? and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: <33F52F33.63332AE1@nconnect.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 15 Aug 1997, Randy DuCharme wrote: > Greetings, > > I know this question's been asked a couple of times but I haven't > found a satisfactory answer in the archives. Perhaps there isn't > one??? :) > > I'm wondering if anyone is successfully using Oracle, or some other > high-end RDBMS on FreeBSD, and if so, how reliable, & robust is it. > I'm getting a lot of pressure to implement an NT/SQL server solution > and would prefer *not* to, but need a viable alternative. > > Why don't you try to use PostgreSQL: it's a goud ORDBMS very reliable and robust. I'm working with it with FreeBSD 2.2.2 and 2.2.1 without any problem. It work very fine with FreeBSD. If you want try it look at FreeBSD port collection, under database category. Gabriele ============================================================================ Ing. Gabriele Cecchetti Abitazione: email: gabriele@ing.unipi.it Via Lenin 127 http://www.ing.unipi.it/~gabriele 56010 Pappiana, PISA (Italy) Tel: +39-50-862316 =============================================================================