Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 09:57:36 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: julian@whistle.com (Julian Elischer) Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Another Linux Religious war (was Re: Commercial vendors registry) Message-ID: <199704160027.JAA11130@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <3353D79C.167EB0E7@whistle.com> from Julian Elischer at "Apr 15, 97 12:31:40 pm"
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cc pruned; I think everyone listed woul see this anyway. Julian Elischer stands accused of saying: > > 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. This would be particularly nice, _most_ particularly if they take the job seriously and support _both_ platforms. So many of the commercial forays into the "free" unix market have been the result of partisanism on the part of employees or (often justified) commercial timidity. For a major player like Oracle to support both platforms would indicate that they were being taken seriously in the commercial world. The effect that an accolade like this would have on the respective development communities would, IMHO, be startling in the least. (ps. a point here; I mean no disrespect to Conetic, who were indeed first with a commercial database native on FreeBSD, I am speaking here purely about image.) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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