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From: Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@datasynergy.org>
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Subject: Re: Why no SAP nor DB2 on FreeBSD ?
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On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Ivan Voras wrote:

> 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.
> 

Thanks for providing the perspective on the issue.

Here is a rather straight query, "how do we grow the userbase" ?


thanks
Saifi.