From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 29 14:11:56 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id OAA19543 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 14:11:56 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA19532 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 1997 14:11:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id IAA12834; Thu, 30 Oct 1997 08:41:39 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <19971030084139.21525@lemis.com> Date: Thu, 30 Oct 1997 08:41:39 +1030 From: Greg Lehey To: Jonathan Chen Cc: Irfan Akber , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Oracle On Free BSD References: <199710292035.BAA27842@khi.compol.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Jonathan Chen on Thu, Oct 30, 1997 at 10:07:53AM +1300 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Oct 30, 1997 at 10:07:53AM +1300, Jonathan Chen wrote: > On Fri, 8 Sep 1995, Irfan Akber wrote: > > [Note: your mail-setup is incorrect - you're mailing from very far in > the past!] >> Hi, >> >> I was planning to run Oracle 7.0 on FreeBSD. Does FreeBSD support that, >> will I be able to run Oracle on it. Please reply as it is very important >> for me to find out. > > The people you really to ask is Oracle. To the best of my knowledge, > there isn't a native version of Oracle for FreeBSD; if there was a > large enough demand, perhaps.. I can anticipate Oracle's answer: "No". > You could try running SCO version on FreeBSD, and see whether that > works. I've heard that that works. I have a copy here, but I haven't found time to try it. Greg