From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Nov 14 11:19:33 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA24656 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 11:19:33 -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 LAA24636; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 11:19:17 -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 OAA18120; Fri, 14 Nov 1997 14:18:15 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 14 Nov 1997 14:18:15 -0500 (EST) From: Charles Owens To: "John S. Dyson" cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: is NCI's "NC Server Suite" FreeBSD-based? In-Reply-To: <199711141906.OAA00694@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: > Charles Owens said: > > > > 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? > > > They use an internal port of Oracle7. > > > > ---> 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. > > > That is a hot-potato that I cannot (and am not competent to) answer. Obvious (and final) followup: Can you point me at a FreeBSD-guru-type who _can_ (and won't mind) answer(ing) this question? >From your tone above I have this sneaking suspicion that your answer to this questio willn be an equally terse "no." If so, I understand (I think). :-) 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 -------------------------------------------------------------------------