From owner-freebsd-database Wed Mar 17 19:46:49 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-database@freebsd.org Received: from misery.sdf.com (misery.sdf.com [204.244.213.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 61C0114DC0 for ; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 19:46:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from tom@sdf.com) Received: from tom by misery.sdf.com with esmtp (Exim 1.82 #3) id 10NSjy-00028w-00; Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:40:58 -0800 Date: Wed, 17 Mar 1999 18:40:56 -0800 (PST) From: Tom To: Jonathan Chen Cc: Alex Povolotsky , freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oracle 8.0.5 for Linux and DBD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Thu, 18 Mar 1999, Jonathan Chen wrote: > As for rumours, they've always been around. Lot's of people suspect > that there's a version of Oracle for FreeBSD in existence, but it's > being held back from release by Oracle. Lots of people KNOW that a version of Oracle exists for FreeBSD. Mainly from when Oracle employees come on the list and talk about it. It's performance is not that great at this point. As far as I know nothing has been doing with it for a while. If you want to talk about rumours: one rumour has FreeBSD being used for the core os for the Oracle 8i appliance (basically a black-box Oracle 8i server). > -- > Jonathan Chen | "Vini, vidi, velcro... > | I came, I saw, I stuck around" > Tom To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message