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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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