Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 21:02:36 -0700 (PDT) From: Mark Diekhans <markd@Grizzly.COM> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: mrcpu@cdsnet.net, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possible Commercial app for FreeBSD. Message-ID: <199610230402.VAA03494@osprey.grizzly.com> In-Reply-To: <7105.846042180@time.cdrom.com> (jkh@time.cdrom.com)
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>From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>
>
>> Get one of the industrial-strength databases (sybase or oracle) and it will
>> open whole new worlds to using FreeBSD.
>
>I've tried - they always tell me "Sorry, it sounds interesting, but
>you have no proven market demographics."
...
>I guess Jaye just touched a nerve. We get one DB company on board and
>then they tell me that nobody buys the FreeBSD version of the product,
>so it wasn't much of a return on investment. Couple the knowledge of
Jordan is, of course, depressingly right here. Sybase doesn't even support
Solaris i86 and is a major release behind on UnixWare.
One thing that might be of interest is that Sybase provides Linux client
libraries free of charge. You can't use Linux as a database server, but
at least you can connect to a database server from Linux. Its been on
my list to try to get these to work under Linux emulation, buts its no
where near the top :-( See:
http://www.sybase.com/Offerings/Samples/Linux/index.html
Mark
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