From owner-freebsd-chat Tue Sep 8 11:29:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA18978 for freebsd-chat-outgoing; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 11:29:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from superior.mooseriver.com (superior.mooseriver.com [208.138.27.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA18968 for ; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 11:29:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgrosch@superior.mooseriver.com) Received: (from jgrosch@localhost) by superior.mooseriver.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA22171; Tue, 8 Sep 1998 11:29:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jgrosch) Message-ID: <19980908112909.A22127@mooseriver.com> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998 11:29:09 -0700 From: Josef Grosch To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , pechter@shell.monmouth.com Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oracle and Linux Reply-To: jgrosch@mooseriver.com References: <199809081815.OAA02209@pechter.dyn.ml.org> <8685.905278685@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <8685.905278685@time.cdrom.com>; from Jordan K. Hubbard on Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 11:18:05AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Sep 08, 1998 at 11:18:05AM -0700, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > According to news.com: > > > > http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,26094,00.html?st.ne.fd.mdh > > > > "Oracle is developing marketing and technology partnerships with > > U.S.-based Red Hat Software and VA Research, Europe and North > > America-based SuSE, and Japanese firm Pacific HiTech. > > All four develop software for the Linux market." > > > > What are we doing in this area for FreeBSD... > > Nothing until Oracle indicates that they're willing to even consider > FreeBSD (which, as of last contact, they were not). Until then, I > guess we'd better make sure our linux emulation is up to it. And loudly announce that the Linux port of Oracle and Informix runs on FreeBSD and that there are companies that are using FreeBSD, Oracle, and Informix for product development. Josef -- Josef Grosch | Another day closer to a | FreeBSD 2.2.7 jgrosch@MooseRiver.com | Micro$oft free world | UNIX for the masses To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message