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Date:      Thu, 18 Sep 1997 08:27:01 +0930
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>
Cc:        chat@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Good Database was: Re: uptime on hub.freebsd.org 
Message-ID:  <199709172257.IAA00509@word.smith.net.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 18 Sep 1997 09:15:37 %2B1200." <Pine.SGI.3.96.970918090812.10796C-100000@tui.pinnacle.co.nz> 

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> On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Atipa wrote:
> 
> [snip]
> > We just dropped a bunch of cash on Informix's Online Workgroup Server for
> > Sparc becauses I could not find any professional quality database for
> > FreeBSD.
> 
> I'm always crossing my fingers and hoping that at least one of the big
> database vendors (Oracle, Informix, Sybase ..) will release a native
> version for FreeBSD, or even Linux.

Why, when there are plenty of good databases already available?
(Nobody has mentioned Conetic's product yet either, and they were one 
of the first database vendors to port to FreeBSD).

OBTW, there are more than a few people running Oracle 7 for SCO on 
FreeBSD; ask Pedro for a reference if you're interested.

mike





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