Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 15:02:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Suresh Rajagopalan <sraja@cinenet.net> To: "Gravel, Emmanuel (AZ77)" <Emmanuel.Gravel@CAS.honeywell.com> Cc: "'isp@freebsd.org'" <isp@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: FreeBSD and Oracle Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.3.95.980819145846.1561C-100000@hollywood.cinenet.net> In-Reply-To: <417E587B9C99D111A1010000F803B7CE186574@az77-revere.bcasd.az.honeywell.com>
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I have not done this, however, I believe you can use Oracle on FreeBSD with IBCS emulation. If there is a easier solution please let me know. It is well known that Yahoo runs on FreeBSD, and their backend DB is Oracle. So there must be FreeBSD support somewhere for Oracle, unless Yahoo is doing it differently. Suresh On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Gravel, Emmanuel (AZ77) wrote: > This may at first not seem to be related to ISP matters, but in my case it > will be. > I'll want to tie up CGI's to an oracle database, to be able to have the > power behind > oracle. The amount of info I'll be dealing with will be large to begin > with, and will > only grow very quickly, so I don't want to have to reinvent the whell when > something > already exists. The only problem is I don't know if Oracle has a version > out for > FreeBSD yet. I know they have software for many other platforms (and very > shortly > including Linux) but I haven't found anything yet for FreeBSD. I don't have > much > experience with Oracle and my learning curve will be steep, but I'd rather > learn > something solid running on something just as solid and secure, rather than > have > to deal with things I don't trust (i.e. M$) or creating something which will > prove > unreliable in the long run. > > In essence, I'd like to know where I can find a version of Oracle for > FreeBSD... > Any info (or suggestions) will be greatly appreciated. > > Emmanuel > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-isp" in the body of the message
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