From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 14 10:56:49 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA22788 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 10:56:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-chat) Received: from itsdsv1.enc.edu (fw1.enc.edu [207.95.42.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA22781; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 10:56:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owensc@enc.edu) Received: from itsdsv2.enc.edu (itsdsv2.enc.edu [10.1.1.9]) by itsdsv1.enc.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id NAA17348; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 13:56:13 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 13:56:13 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Owens Reply-To: Charles Owens To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is NCI's "NC Server Suite" FreeBSD-based? In-Reply-To: <199711141756.MAA00434@dyson.iquest.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 14 Nov 1997, John S. Dyson wrote: > Bryan K. Ogawa said: > > > > Well, one of Free/Net/OpenBSD, at least, and not BSDi, and with the > > reference to FreeBSD, it'd have to be the leading candidate. > > > It IS NetBSD and FreeBSD based. The choice was due to various peoples > experience (Yahoo, et.al.), licensing (non-GPL for runtime), and portability > (for ARM -- NetBSD being very portable.) > > I was pleasantly overwhelmed to see the reputation that *BSD has in the > NCI/Oracle community. Since you're obviously someone in touch with many-things-Oracle, please allow me to ask one other question (maybe "family of questions" would be more accurate): In my quick perusal of the "Server Suite" product literature, I see mentioned that Oracle7 Server is part of the deal (or at least an option). Does this mean that Oracle has a *BSD port of Oracle7? Or, do they use an SCO version running with ibcs2 emulation? (Or, maybe they mean for you to do database stuff with a separate box... say, a Sun ?) ---> The _real_ question that I'm looking for an answer to is, if I wanted to run an Oracle database on FreeBSD, what is the optimum approach? I'm sure this is a FAQ, but when I've dug around the list archives in the past I've not gotten far. Thanks, --- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Charles N. Owens Email: owensc@enc.edu http://www.enc.edu/~owensc Network & Systems Administrator Information Technology Services "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's Eastern Nazarene College best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx -------------------------------------------------------------------------