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From: Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@datasynergy.org>
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Subject: Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ? 
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On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Julian H. Stacey wrote:

> Saifi Khan wrote:
> > Hi:
> > 
> > This is a newbie query.
> > 
> > i noticed that there is no Oracle available for FreeBSD
> > http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/index.html
> > 
> > What could be the reason for that ?
> 
> Best ask direct of commercial application vendor Oracle.
> IE wave money under Oracle's nose & ask to purchase what you want.
> 
> If Oracle think there's enough profit in it, there's many BSD
> consultants eg http://berklix.com/consultants/ willing to work.
> 
> Cheers,
> Julian
> -- 

i was wondering if there is any technical reason behind this ?


thanks
Saifi.