From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed May 6 17:35:02 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA27084 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Wed, 6 May 1998 17:35:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dyson.iquest.net (dyson.iquest.net [198.70.144.127]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA27010; Wed, 6 May 1998 17:34:33 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dyson@dyson.iquest.net) Received: (from root@localhost) by dyson.iquest.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA08551; Wed, 6 May 1998 19:34:18 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from dyson) Message-Id: <199805070034.TAA08551@dyson.iquest.net> Subject: Re: Oracle 7 on FreeBSD In-Reply-To: from Open Systems Networking at "May 6, 98 08:30:24 pm" To: opsys@mail.webspan.net (Open Systems Networking) Date: Wed, 6 May 1998 19:34:18 -0500 (EST) Cc: julian@whistle.com, sbabkin@dcn.att.com, dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, steve.shoecraft@microchip.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: "John S. Dyson" Reply-To: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Open Systems Networking said: > On Wed, 6 May 1998, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > I don't know. Your best bet is to ask them. > > Apparently they have caved in and are going to use NT instead > > of FreeBSD in the future, so there is no surity that it will > > always be available. > > WHAT!!! Say it isn't so!!! John? > Why would they do such an insanely stupid move. > The cost of using NT vs FreeBSD as the base surely has to be a very stupid > move in the eyes of the suits. I mean unles oracle has just decided to > burn their money for no reason. > Oracle IS adopting NT more and more, but that has little to do with us. -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message