From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Oct 22 21:33:02 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA04056 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 21:33:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rocky.mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA04024 for ; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 21:32:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from nate@localhost) by rocky.mt.sri.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) id WAA26437; Tue, 22 Oct 1996 22:32:37 -0600 (MDT) Date: Tue, 22 Oct 1996 22:32:37 -0600 (MDT) Message-Id: <199610230432.WAA26437@rocky.mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams To: Michael Smith Cc: markd@grizzly.com (Mark Diekhans), jkh@time.cdrom.com, mrcpu@cdsnet.net, hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Possible Commercial app for FreeBSD. In-Reply-To: <199610230419.NAA23746@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> References: <199610230321.UAA00727@osprey.grizzly.com> <199610230419.NAA23746@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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