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Date:      Fri, 14 May 1999 01:27:05 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
To:        Philip Hallstrom <philip@adhesivemedia.com>
Cc:        Jonathan Chen <jonc@pinnacle.co.nz>, Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk>, Daniel Haischt <danielh@privat.toplink.de>, freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Apache/PHP/Oracle8...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990514012239.26546Z-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905132127340.85864-100000@burlap.eilio.com>

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On Thu, 13 May 1999, Philip Hallstrom wrote:

> All -
> 	Someone sent me email privately saying that this might do more
> harm than good.  That it would be viewed with annoyance from Oracle.  He
> mentioned something about Xi graphics not supporting FreeBSD and something
> Jordan Hubbard had said.  I didn't see that thread so don't know what
> happened.
> 
> What do people think?  I'd really like to hear from anyone on the FreeBSD
> team... about the last thing I want is to hurt it...

The problem was that Xi Graphics made a FreeBSD port of CDE, it sold
_one_ copy.  CDE sucks, Oracle doesn't.

Y'know what don't auto email them, just keep track of people that
sign the "guestbook of people that want oracle for freebsd".

Someone may wander across it.

-Alfred




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