Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 22:32:37 -0600 (MDT) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: markd@grizzly.com (Mark Diekhans), jkh@time.cdrom.com, mrcpu@cdsnet.net, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible Commercial app for FreeBSD. Message-ID: <199610230432.WAA26437@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199610230419.NAA23746@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> References: <199610230321.UAA00727@osprey.grizzly.com> <199610230419.NAA23746@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Michael Smith writes: > Mark Diekhans stands accused of saying: > > > > Get one of the industrial-strength databases (sybase or oracle) and it will > > open whole new worlds to using FreeBSD. > > AFAIR, Sybase for SCO runs quite happily under the iBCS2 emulation. As well as Informix (as long as you have the correct shlibs, or a version which doesn't need them.) > I don't know if you'd call dBase "industrial strength", but the local > electrical utility uses it exclusively (400,000+ customers, etc.). The problem is that unless you want to build your application under SCO unix (or cross-compile it under FreeBSD), you can't build a native FreeBSD program. It's also near impossible to debug SCO binaries on FreeBSD. The ibcs2 emulation stuff is *nice* for running already existing applications, but it's really not applicable for new stuff. Nate
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