From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Sep 29 14:08:07 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA10008 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 14:08:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from atlantis.nconnect.net (root@atlantis.nconnect.net [207.227.50.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA09965 for ; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 14:07:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nconnect.net (arabian.microxp.com [207.227.65.13]) by atlantis.nconnect.net (8.8.4/8.7.3) with ESMTP id QAA28304; Mon, 29 Sep 1997 16:07:53 -0500 (CDT) Message-ID: <3430199C.6BBF08AA@nconnect.net> Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 16:11:57 -0500 From: Randy DuCharme Reply-To: randyd@nconnect.net Organization: Computer Specialists X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.03b8 [en] (X11; I; FreeBSD 3.0-CURRENT i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Litzinger CC: Randy Katz , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oracle, Sybase, and some .dbf databses like foxpro? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Brian Litzinger wrote: > > > Does FreeBSD natively or through any of its emulations support > > Oracle, Sybase, or foxpro? > > > > -- > > brian I tried to get the SCO UnixWare and SCO Openserver versions of Oracle7 to run on -current. I was rather unsuccessful and after a few hours of pounding I gave up. I've heard that it's possible and that some people have gotten it running but you couldn't tell it by me. Have you looked at PostgreSQL or mySQL. I use both of those quite successfully! If you need a commercial solution, Raima (http://www.raima.com) ports their Velocis database to virtually every platform imaginable. It's a very full featured product that's also very fast and scalable. Solid (http://www.solidtech.com) also has a beta version of an SQL database server that has an ODBC SQL C API. ( as does Velocis) I've been playing with that lately and it also seems very stable and fast. IMHO with these options, I personally see no need to horse around with the SCO emulation :-). --- Randall D DuCharme Systems Engineer Novell, Microsoft, and UNIX Networking Support Computer Specialists BSDI Internet Success Partners 414-253-9998 414-253-9919 (fax) BSD/OS Authorized Resellers