From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 25 13:43:55 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 096F91065676 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:43:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from tower.berklix.org (tower.berklix.org [83.236.223.114]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 04F1B8FC12 for ; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:43:53 +0000 (UTC) Received: from park.js.berklix.net (p549A6ACB.dip.t-dialin.net [84.154.106.203]) (authenticated bits=0) by tower.berklix.org (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id n8PDhR7h078911; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:43:32 GMT (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (fire.js.berklix.net [192.168.91.41]) by park.js.berklix.net (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n8PDhMBn081628; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:43:22 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@berklix.com) Received: from fire.js.berklix.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fire.js.berklix.net (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id n8PDjSUM019919; Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:45:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from jhs@fire.js.berklix.net) Message-Id: <200909251345.n8PDjSUM019919@fire.js.berklix.net> To: Saifi Khan From: "Julian H. Stacey" Organization: http://www.berklix.com BSD Unix Linux Consultancy, Munich Germany User-agent: EXMH on FreeBSD http://www.berklix.com/free/ X-URL: http://www.berklix.com In-reply-to: Your message "Fri, 25 Sep 2009 17:58:18 +0530." Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 15:45:28 +0200 Sender: jhs@berklix.com Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2009 13:43:55 -0000 > > 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/