Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:20:23 +1000 From: Tony Theodore <tonyt@logyst.com> To: Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why no SAP nor DB2 on FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <22166b750909280320r3356c113l8d54e46279f2742f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <h9ptb8$oi0$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909261215530.34559@freebsd> <h9ptb8$oi0$1@ger.gmane.org>
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2009/9/28 Ivan Voras <ivoras@freebsd.org> > Saifi Khan wrote: > > Hi all: > > > > In continuation of my investigation of Oracle, i also noticed > > that there is: > > . no SAP for FreeBSD > > . no DB2 for FreeBSD > > . no Sybase ASE for FreeBSD > > . no Informix for FreeBSD > > > > Discouing PostgreSql installations, effectively enterprise > > database setups have given FreeBSD a miss. > > What could be reason for this ? > > An obvious guess would be that the userbase is too small and that makes > it unprofitable to support the products on FreeBSD. > > Which then leads the FreeBSD community to give those products a miss and use alternatives, or find ways of running them without vendor support, which further reduces demand. I guess from an advocacy perspective, it's hard to get enthused about this as the alternatives seem more attractive. It's not like hardware drivers that do constrain usage and development. Tony
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