Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:45:28 +0200 From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhs@berklix.com> To: Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@datasynergy.org> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ? Message-ID: <200909251345.n8PDjSUM019919@fire.js.berklix.net> In-Reply-To: Your message "Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:58:18 %2B0530." <alpine.BSF.2.00.0909251754001.40555@freebsd>
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> > Most unlikely. Ask Oracle & tell advocacy@ what you find out. > > I'd bet perceived market share & demand as ever, ie Money. > > Hi Julian: > > Here is the response on the Oracle forum thread to my posting, > > """ > FreeBSD is a kernel not used in any extant operating system with > the sole exception being Apple's Mac OSX so you are heading, ... > Given the response, What is your analysis of the situation ? Hi Saifi, I wrote: > > Best ask direct of commercial application vendor Oracle. > > IE wave money under Oracle's nose & ask to purchase what you want. I meant contact Oracle Inc _Direct_ & ask to purchase licenses for BSD. Not ask a forum of users including the clueless Oracle user you quoted. If you only want to buy a few licenses. Oracle probably won't be interested (unless you convince them you'r a path finder for more purchasers to come); ... but on top of Krad's Solaris approach, if you wanted to try out Oracle, as well as native, you might perhaps try it on a linux or opensolaris within eg FreeBSD/branches/-current/ports/emulators/virtualbox/ (if you try it & get stuck there's an emulators@freebsd list). Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail ASCII plain text not HTML & Base64. http://asciiribbon.org Virused Microsoft PCs cause spam. http://berklix.com/free/
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