Date: Fri, 07 May 1999 15:40:03 +0100 From: Dom Mitchell <Dom.Mitchell@palmerharvey.co.uk> To: Jesus Monroy <jesus.monroy@usa.net> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, "Jan B. Koum" <jkb@best.com>, Ben Manes <anarchy@crl.com>, advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG, parker@Yahoo-inc.com Subject: Re: [Re: [svlug] *sigh* (fwd) ] Message-ID: <E10flnI-0003xO-00@voodoo.pandhm.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Jesus Monroy's message of "07 May 1999 07:27:24 PDT" <19990507142725.2415.qmail@nw128.netaddress.usa.net>
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On 7 May 1999, Jesus Monroy proclaimed:
> "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> wrote:
> > > The reason we had to go with RedHat was because that is what
> > > Oracle will oficially support. Not Debian. Not SuSE. Not FreeBSD (the
> > > other Linux distribution).
> >
> > I thought Yahoo had some sort of deal with Oracle to get a FreeBSD
> > native version at one point. Whatever happened to Yahoo's "special
> > relationship" with the Oracle folks, anyway? :-)
>
> Perhaps we might recall Oracle investing in RH.
Or indeed, Oracle's previous investment in Network Computers (which
happened to be based upon {Net,Free}BSD.
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