From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Nov 9 19:40:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id TAA28999 for hackers-outgoing; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 19:40:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers) Received: from word.smith.net.au (vh1.gsoft.com.au [203.38.152.122]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id TAA28994 for ; Sun, 9 Nov 1997 19:40:17 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@word.smith.net.au) Received: from word.smith.net.au (localhost.gsoft.com.au [127.0.0.1]) by word.smith.net.au (8.8.7/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA00719; Mon, 10 Nov 1997 14:06:13 +1030 (CST) Message-Id: <199711100336.OAA00719@word.smith.net.au> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Douglas Carmichael cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Could FreeBSD be a viable platform for large SQL/SAP/etc enterprise applications? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 09 Nov 1997 17:54:14 MDT." <199711092354.RAA02551@dcarmich.pr.mcs.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 10 Nov 1997 14:06:12 +1030 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Could FreeBSD be a viable platform to run business applications (e.g. Oracle > or other SQL servers, SAP R/3, BAAN, etc.)? Naturally. The biggest hurdle is getting versions of said applications that will run; there are certainly people running Oracle on FreeBSD, as well as other large SQL servers. If SAP is available for SCO, then there's a reasonable chance it would run OK; dBase 4 was running last time I looked as well. mike