From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 24 17:33:55 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 219CA1065692 for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:33:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 562768FC0C for ; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:33:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from park.js.berklix.net (p549A39EC.dip.t-dialin.net [84.154.57.236]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n8OHXaS1056975; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:33:38 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by park.js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8OHXDWA075483; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:33:26 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n8OHZMVM099476; Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:35:27 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <200909241735.n8OHZMVM099476@fire.js.berklix.net> To: Saifi Khan From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Thu, 24 Sep 2009 22:46:45 +0530." Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:35:22 +0200 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:33:55 -0000 > > > 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 ? Most unlikely. Ask Oracle & tell advocacy@ what you find out. I'd bet perceived market share & demand as ever, ie Money. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail ASCII plain text not HTML & Base64. http://asciiribbon.org Virused Microsoft PCs cause spam. http://berklix.com/free/