From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 7 17:48:04 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id RAA11190 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 7 May 1998 17:48:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from alpo.whistle.com (alpo.whistle.com [207.76.204.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA11044 for ; Thu, 7 May 1998 17:47:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@whistle.com) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by alpo.whistle.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA14226; Thu, 7 May 1998 17:44:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from current1.whistle.com(207.76.205.22) via SMTP by alpo.whistle.com, id smtpd014222; Fri May 8 00:44:36 1998 Message-ID: <35525583.3F54BC7E@whistle.com> Date: Thu, 07 May 1998 17:44:51 -0700 From: Julian Elischer Organization: Whistle Communications X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0Gold (X11; I; FreeBSD 2.2.5-RELEASE i386) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: joe.shevland@horizonti.com CC: marc@bowtie.nl, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oracle 7 on FreeBSD References: <199805071628.SAA24315@nietzsche.intra.bowtie.nl> <35524184.5CF8@horizonti.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Joe Shevland wrote: > > > I've just spoken to some of the parties involved with the NCI > NC's down here in regard to Oracle 7 and FreeBSD. Now, going by > what I was just told, FreeBSD _is_ definitely being discontinued 8( maybe you need to let john know the names of the people who told you that as He's doing it and no-one has told him to stop yet.. Or alternatively, maybe you've run into one of the people at NC who keep trying to spike the FreeBSD project by denying its existance and saying that it will never be stable.. there are some people there who are solaris fanatics who view FreeBSD as a threat. > > NT will replace this, and the Solaris effort is ongoing too. > The NT version is now in beta. I'm not trying to spread > misinformation, this is from an authoritive source. > > I think anyone will have a very hard time trying to purchase the > Oracle 7 binaries; I'd be very surprised. From what I've heard, > they've scrapped that side of things and will not release the > code (I'm not saying > a large amount of public pressure wouldn't change their minds, not > saying > it will either). > > -- > Joe > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message