From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 17 06:31:18 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1101416A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 06:31:18 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp9.wanadoo.fr (smtp9.wanadoo.fr [193.252.22.22]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAE9043D2F for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 06:31:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from atkielski.anthony@wanadoo.fr) Received: from me-wanadoo.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mwinf0901.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id DC7E5200143B for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:31:16 +0100 (CET) Received: from pix.atkielski.com (ASt-Lambert-111-2-1-3.w81-50.abo.wanadoo.fr [81.50.80.3]) by mwinf0901.wanadoo.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id C07EC2001448 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:31:16 +0100 (CET) X-ME-UUID: 20050217063116788.C07EC2001448@mwinf0901.wanadoo.fr Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 07:31:16 +0100 From: Anthony Atkielski X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <164983706.20050217073116@wanadoo.fr> To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <421430E9.80509@nbritton.org> References: <9C4E897FB284BF4DBC9C0DC42FB34617641B03@mvaexch01.acuson.com> <1613371449.20050216040529@wanadoo.fr> <42130481.8000406@nbritton.org> <17410148610.20050216181649@wanadoo.fr> <421430E9.80509@nbritton.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: SPAM: Score 3.7: Re: Instead of freebsd. com, why not... X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 06:31:18 -0000 Nikolas Britton writes: > One reason would be that it's required for the Compiere open source > ERP/CRM software package. They are tring to port it to PostgreSQL and > Sybase but those are a long way off because they need $20,000 to do it: > http://www.compiere.org/ It's kind of counterproductive to write an open-source package that won't run without proprietary software installed along with it. > Umm where do I start... :-) I'm quite happy with PostgreSQL and can't > use MySQL anyways because SQL-Ledger doesn't support MySQL because MySQL > is lacking required features. That's fine. I was just asking why not an open-source DBMS, instead of Oracle. -- Anthony