From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 17 11:47:48 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 DDAAF16A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:47:48 +0000 (GMT) Received: from rproxy.gmail.com (rproxy.gmail.com [64.233.170.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 631CF43D3F for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:47:48 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from sander.vesik@gmail.com) Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id j1so278690rnf for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 03:47:45 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:references; b=GzXBKc0qsp041fZvimRAz2ux58DC4Oz6rJQHvfS6T2DqT5uhHjbwLj4Ce6AWGIeMyZ8TSm5T5y/01vm0ccmozWqaF3T76lIohNrwzG+lInDdE3R8ZTSBz9ax9Cv0frczm1fUFYvNMkjZIw1D8Jtx36+gZKGJdjnow6mSM8Cma/E= Received: by 10.38.150.31 with SMTP id x31mr76923rnd; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 03:47:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.38.66.46 with HTTP; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 03:47:45 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:47:45 +0200 From: Sander Vesik To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <17410148610.20050216181649@wanadoo.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <9C4E897FB284BF4DBC9C0DC42FB34617641B03@mvaexch01.acuson.com> <42130481.8000406@nbritton.org> <17410148610.20050216181649@wanadoo.fr> 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: Sander Vesik List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 11:47:49 -0000 On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 18:16:49 +0100, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > Nikolas Britton writes: > > > Care to extrapolate on your comment? > > I've already done so, several times. > > > You'll need X just to install Oracle on your server. > > Oracle? I thought the big deal with software like FreeBSD was that it > is open source, and free. And you want me to buy and install Oracle on > it? Or has Oracle been released to the free open-source world? > No. The question is not whetever you have to buy Oracle - something that is not the case - but that you can buy and run Oracle on a server and in many cases may well want to, including on FreeBSD. The same applies to many other commercial software packages out there. FreeBSD is primarily an opertaing system and as such should provide services to userland prorams without forcing value jugements as to what kinds of userland programs these are. > What's wrong with something like MySQL? While the uses of Oracle and MySQL are for the most entirely orthognal, the answer is "to run databases". Whats wrong with MySQL is that the kinds of databases you can and really want to run with it are a rather limited set. If what you need is covered by MySQL, sure nothing is wrong with it but it by far doesn't cover everything.