Date: Sat, 15 May 1999 02:07:02 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@freebie.dcfinc.com> To: philip@adhesivemedia.com (Philip Hallstrom) Cc: jonc@pinnacle.co.nz, sos@freebsd.dk, danielh@privat.toplink.de, freebsd-database@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Apache/PHP/Oracle8... Message-ID: <199905150907.CAA22229@freebie.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9905131410250.85864-100000@burlap.eilio.com> from Philip Hallstrom at "May 13, 99 02:14:50 pm"
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> No, generating a slightly different letter wouldn't be that hard. Someone > would just have to write a bunch of slightly different letters. > > I'm thinking something like this: > > Set up a web site with a form that asks for your email and name > (anything else needed?), and then sends off the email. > > Options: > - The email could be randomly selected from the pool of letters, > substiting your name and email, etc. > - The first email could be 1, the second, 2, etc... (sequential and > looping). > - Or, you fill the form out once, and then every week, or maybe two weeks, > or something insistent, but nice, an email gets sent out. > > > Thoughts? I think that spamming Oracle is a poor way of trying to convince them that we deserve their attention. Collect a list of folks that want a native Oracle for FreeBSD, and what they would pay for a license under what circumstances. Perhaps use your web site to gather the votes. Let the sales guys build a business case to take to development. > -philip -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-database" in the body of the message
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