From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jan 16 00:57:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BC9716A4CE; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:57:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from postmanpat.isu.mmu.ac.uk (postmanpat.isu.mmu.ac.uk [149.170.192.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 927F243D66; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 00:57:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from p.robinson@mmu.ac.uk) Received: from agena.mmu.ac.uk ([149.170.168.195]) by postmanpat.isu.mmu.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #2) id 1AhPnA-0004XR-00; Fri, 16 Jan 2004 08:57:24 +0000 Received: from MMU-HSS-AGENA/SpoolDir by agena.mmu.ac.uk (Mercury 1.48); 16 Jan 04 08:57:25 +0100 Received: from SpoolDir by MMU-HSS-AGENA (Mercury 1.48); 16 Jan 04 08:57:24 +0100 Received: from PRGMMITER (149.170.101.200) by agena.mmu.ac.uk (Mercury 1.48) with ESMTP; 16 Jan 04 08:57:23 +0100 From: "Paul Robinson" To: "'Matt Olander'" , Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 08:57:23 -0000 Message-ID: <000d01c3dc0e$c1b17030$6f01a8c0@MITERDOMAIN> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.2627 In-Reply-To: <20040115135949.F81664@knight.ixsystems.net> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 Subject: RE: Oracle Meeting Results X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 08:57:28 -0000 Matt wrote: > Of course, the Oracle marketing engine is concerned if there > is a viable > market for gearing up to do something of this nature. I think we're seeing a steady migration to FreeBSD from Linux, which in turn is seeing a steady migration from Solaris, which in turn is picking up the SCO/AIX/HP-UX strays, so strategically it makes sense. > In an attempt to placate his concerns about supporting a test download > like this, we informed him that the FreeBSD community is used > to figuring > out things on their own, and that we could possibly have a > couple of DBA > contacts within the community act as primary contacts for initial > support and an oracle specific mailing list. I'm happy to help out in that regard, and I work for a University in the UK which has an Oracle site license and my department assists tech companies in the region, and so I might be able to offer some real-world support as well. I'm relatively new to Oracle, but am looking forward to getting my hands on the developer's edition and perhaps rolling out a real infrastructure. -- Paul Robinson