From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Apr 15 14:14:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA11503 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 14:14:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (rah.star-gate.com [204.188.121.18]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA11498 for ; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 14:14:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rah.star-gate.com (localhost.star-gate.com [127.0.0.1]) by rah.star-gate.com (8.8.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id OAA01746; Tue, 15 Apr 1997 14:14:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199704152114.OAA01746@rah.star-gate.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.9 8/22/96 To: Julian Elischer cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Another Linux Religious war (was Re: Commercial vendors registry) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 15 Apr 1997 12:31:40 PDT." <3353D79C.167EB0E7@whistle.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 15 Apr 1997 14:14:18 -0700 From: Amancio Hasty Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >From The Desk Of Julian Elischer : > > Then maybe you need an enlightened upper management person. :-) > > > > The business I work for uses Oracle databases on Sequent machines for our > > 'mission critical' point of sale support. However, almost all database > > reporting and manipulation; ie: 'critical' things like daily profit > > statements, bi-weekly salary & commission payments, and sales tracking is > > done in perl. > > I heard a very solid supportable rumour that Oracle may soon be > suppoorting FreeBSD and possibly Linux in an attempt to reduce the > reasons that people > have to go to NT. > > I'm planning on following the rumour up but if the rumour is true then > Larry himself knows about FreeBSD.. > I will be surprise if Larry does not know about FreeBSD. You see Venture Capital people talk a lot and there a few startups in the Valley which use FreeBSD including the one that I was part of. Personally, I dealt with people who know Larry. Cheers, Amancio