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Date:      Fri, 08 May 1998 11:50:16 +1000
From:      Joe Shevland <joe.shevland@horizonti.com>
To:        dyson@FreeBSD.ORG
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Oracle 7 on FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <355264D8.4C92@horizonti.com>
References:  <199805080138.UAA13115@dyson.iquest.net>

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John S. Dyson wrote:
> 
> Joe Shevland said:
> > > >
> > > There is a group of people working on *BSD in general.  FreeBSD is
> > > not dead here, and there is little that is showing that it is.  There
> > > are other products, but they don't affect the use of BSD.
> > >
> >
> > Quote from the Bob Marley scriptures:
> >
> > 'Time will Tell' :)
> >
> You might be speaking of specific projects where we aren't using
> FreeBSD anymore.  I am at the main NCI location, and really do
> know what is going on.

Sure. This needed to be said. I was talking about the NC-In-
A-Box package (the one-step CD installation etc...), which I take
it is not a major proportion of the development going on.

> I cannot really talk about future plans, but I can say that things
> are changing.  Just look at things rationally, about how self
> destructive that it would be to try to use NT in appications where
> FreeBSD or *BSD are vastly more suitable.

It seemed rather strange to me too. The only reason I could think
of was that you were getting an overwhelming demand for NT from the
mindwashed legions.

> Very little *significant* NT server development has been done in
> the last few months, yet the BSD and other U**X development has
> significant resources devoted towards it.  *BSD might not be used
> forever, but for now, to start from scratch would take years with
> NT.

And would it be worth the headache? ;)
 
> You might be talking of the NC server or somesuch, and that itself might
> be changing, but again, that has little to do with the whole picture
> of how much BSD is used.

To reiterate, I was talking about one specific project.
Thanks for clearing the air.

-- 
Joe

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