From owner-freebsd-advocacy Sun Aug 8 17:23:16 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from smtp03.primenet.com (smtp03.primenet.com [206.165.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F33B14BFC for ; Sun, 8 Aug 1999 17:23:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr08.primenet.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by smtp03.primenet.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA17540; Sun, 8 Aug 1999 17:18:25 -0700 (MST) Received: from usr08.primenet.com(206.165.6.208) via SMTP by smtp03.primenet.com, id smtpd017476; Sun Aug 8 17:18:15 1999 Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr08.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA06229; Sun, 8 Aug 1999 17:18:14 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199908090018.RAA06229@usr08.primenet.com> Subject: Re: Oracle for FreeBSD To: garbanzo@hooked.net (Alex Zepeda) Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1999 00:18:13 +0000 (GMT) Cc: BMCGROARTY@high-voltage.com, freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: from "Alex Zepeda" at Aug 6, 99 06:41:10 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > P.S. A really neat idea might be a boxed Oracle distribution of some sort. > But oh wait, they've got Linux division; not a FreeBSD one. Hell some > sort of distribution including some big comercial package of choice would > really be neat (Oracle 8, Now with FreeBSD). There is already a FreeBSD port of Oracle. It runs on Oracle's (NCI's) FreeBSD based Network Computer server. It also runs on FreeBSD-current, if you tar it up and untar it, as someone who shall remain nameless has done to see if there were OS specific hooks built into the NC server FreeBSD kernel to support the database (there weren't). It's a matter of leveraging a big company that needs it (e.g. Yahoo) to get it released as a supported product on FreeBSD in general, instead of merely as a component of their NC server. It needs a corporate sponsor. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message