Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 11:21:52 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> To: Matt Olander <matt@freebsd.org> Cc: advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Oracle Meeting Results Message-ID: <20040115222152.GA92221@grimoire.chen.org.nz> In-Reply-To: <20040115135949.F81664@knight.ixsystems.net> References: <20040115135949.F81664@knight.ixsystems.net>
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On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 01:59:50PM -0800, Matt Olander wrote: > Today Peter Wemm and I met with Edward Screven the CTO at Oracle to > discuss the possiblity of Oracle on FreeBSD natively. The meeting went > very well overall and Edward seemed to be cool with the idea. > > Of course, the Oracle marketing engine is concerned if there is a viable > market for gearing up to do something of this nature. > > What we ended up discussing is a 'not officially supported' development > version of Oracle downloadable from their website after filling in the > standard who, what, where, and why type of form with the typical > disclaimers, which I believe they already do for the other development > versions. This is really *GOOD* news! Thanks for the work guys! -- Jonathan Chen <jonc@chen.org.nz> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." -- RFC 1925
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