Re: Why no SAP nor DB2 on FreeBSD ?
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Ivan Voras wrote: Saifi Khan wrote: Hi all: In continuation of my investigation of Oracle, i also noticed that there is: . no SAP for FreeBSD . no DB2 for FreeBSD . no Sybase ASE for FreeBSD . no Informix for FreeBSD Discouing PostgreSql installations, effectively enterprise database setups have given FreeBSD a miss. What could be reason for this ? An obvious guess would be that the userbase is too small and that makes it unprofitable to support the products on FreeBSD. Thanks for providing the perspective on the issue. Here is a rather straight query, how do we grow the userbase ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
2008 EuroBSDCon PDF and Audio ?
Hi: Every year the EuroBSDCon has a new host site and the slides and audio/video seem to go missing after a while. i'm trying to locate the stuff in 2009, about the 2008 EuroBSDCon talks page at http://2008.eurobsdcon.org/talks.html Does anybody know how the various slides and audio/video can be retrieved ? Please excuse me as i am a newbie and was wondering if there is a technical reason for not having the slides and media stuff consolidated at a single site ? Thanks in advance. thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?
On Fri, 25 Sep 2009, Chad Perrin wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 09:15:43PM +0530, Saifi Khan wrote: i noticed that there is no Oracle available for FreeBSD http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/index.html I unfortunately don't have anything to offer as a direct answer to that, other than perhaps Oracle's short-sightedness. I wonder why you ask, though. Do you plan to use Oracle for some specific real world purpose? Are you simply trying to learn about Oracle? Are you just curious about the lack of Oracle for FreeBSD? Here is some background to help you understand the requirement: i was conducting a system administration session for some IT admins and managers, here in Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, INDIA. One of the folks has a PostgreSQL on FreeBSD setup running since last 4 yrs without any issues. They have recently received Oracle database server and need to set up on Windows 2003 server. Since the folks have prior experience with FreeBSD it seemed logical to try and setup Oracle on FreeBSD on IBM x-series server. i was particularly interested since the acquisition dataset growth rate was like 30-50 GB per week, stored on a SAN. thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: Why no SAP nor DB2 on FreeBSD ?
On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Marius N?nnerich wrote: On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 08:57, Saifi Khan saifi.k...@datasynergy.org wrote: Hi all: In continuation of my investigation of Oracle, i also noticed that there is: . no SAP for FreeBSD . no DB2 for FreeBSD . no Sybase ASE for FreeBSD . no Informix for FreeBSD Discouing PostgreSql installations, effectively enterprise database setups have given FreeBSD a miss. What could be reason for this ? Same answer as last time: Please ask the respective vendors and report back. This cannot be accidental. So this time, i've taken a two-pronged approach. 1. checking information on vendor sites and with contacts. 2. close analysis of discussions on freebsd-hackers during 2003-2005 time frame. thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Julian H. Stacey wrote: i noticed that there is no Oracle available for FreeBSD http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/index.html What could be the reason for that ? Best ask direct of commercial application vendor Oracle. IE wave money under Oracle's nose ask to purchase what you want. If Oracle think there's enough profit in it, there's many BSD consultants eg http://berklix.com/consultants/ willing to work. Cheers, Julian -- i was wondering if there is any technical reason behind this ? Most unlikely. Ask Oracle tell advocacy@ what you find out. I'd bet perceived market share demand as ever, ie Money. Hi Julian: Here is the response on the Oracle forum thread to my posting, FreeBSD is a kernel not used in any extant operating system with the sole exception being Apple's Mac OSX so you are heading, full speed ahead, toward disappointment. FreeBSD handles many things very differently from the UNIX System 5 standard so you can not just kludge your way into this. What fascinates me about your request is why you care. FreeBSD is going nowhere at a staggeringly fast pace. And to the same place as went Oracle Database version 8.0. Obscurity. Install Oracle's Enterprise Linux and you will have a real operating system in less time than you've spent monitoring this thead. And as an additional value it will support the Oracle technology stack while you are still young enough to use it. and IF you can match up the system calls, then you can 'make it work'. The relevant links are 1. http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=952076tstart=0 2. http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=952076tstart=0 The response seems to suggest that there is some feature used by Oracle which is expected from a UNIX Sys 5 std and perhaps FreeBSD does not support/have the syscall. Given the response, What is your analysis of the situation ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?
Hi: This is a newbie query. i noticed that there is no Oracle available for FreeBSD http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/index.html What could be the reason for that ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?
On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Julian H. Stacey wrote: Saifi Khan wrote: Hi: This is a newbie query. i noticed that there is no Oracle available for FreeBSD http://www.oracle.com/technology/software/products/database/index.html What could be the reason for that ? Best ask direct of commercial application vendor Oracle. IE wave money under Oracle's nose ask to purchase what you want. If Oracle think there's enough profit in it, there's many BSD consultants eg http://berklix.com/consultants/ willing to work. Cheers, Julian -- i was wondering if there is any technical reason behind this ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: EuroBSDCon 2009 pictures
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Robert Watson wrote: On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Saifi Khan wrote: Thanks, the pictures are awesome. Did you write any blog/tweet about your experiences ? How was the interaction and enthusiasm level at the conference ? Probably in appropriate to generalize, but this was the largest ever FreeBSD developer summit in .EU (70 or so attendees), and EuroBSDCon came in around 180 attendees, which is up from last year (don't have precise numbers). Our conference dinner, sponsored by iXsystems, (photos of Clare college in the various collections) was sold out at 150 with a waiting list. We did have some trouble fund-raising for the conference, as a number of companies we approached reported that they currently had travel/conference freezes due to the economy. However, it being a poor economic year that didn't seem to prevent people from having a good time (although it likely did limit attendees from further way). Fairly soon, we should have slides, papers, and audio recordings of many of the sessions on the UKUUG web site, and it looks like the Karlsruhe folk are already warming up for EuroBSDCon 2010 :-). For those of us in the UK, I think this is a good moment to remind ourselves that there is a lot of BSD-related work, BSD-based companies, and BSD development in the UK (especially FreeBSD). I know I chatted with many other folk from the UK who all basically said you know, we should do this more often, so perhaps this will trigger more regular UK-based BSD events! Thanks Robert for the informative mail. Wondering if there is any group photo of FreeBSD dev, something along the lines of http://www.postgresql.org/files/community/conference06/conference_group.jpg Would you know ? Is the BSD-related work in UK, about new product development on BSD platform or a enterprise systems maintenance stuff ? Certainly more events will help promote *BSD, which is a good thing. thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: EuroBSDCon 2009 pictures
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav wrote: Saifi Khan saifi.k...@datasynergy.org writes: Wondering if there is any group photo of FreeBSD dev [...] You'd have to get all 350 of us in the same place at the same time... DES -- Dag-Erling Sm?rgrav - d...@des.no In that case it may be a good idea to start with some group photo and then create a collage of photos that capture as many folks as possible. You may have see photovisi.com photomix.com i'm sure it would be fun if the *BSD community pools in and would also help folks warm up ;-) thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
Re: bsdevents on Twitter
On Tue, 10 Mar 2009, Dru Lavigne wrote: Hi everyone, I've created a twitter account @bsdevents (https://twitter.com/bsdevents) which is meant to be a one-stop-shop for all BSD-related events such as: * BSD conferences * events where there will be a BSD booth or presentation * BSD user group meetings (including UUGs and LUGs with BSD representation) * BSD training * discussion on events needing a BSD booth, booth buddies, or swag * links to promotional material regarding BSD For those who prefer RSS to twitter, the feed is at https://twitter.com/statuses/user_timeline/23451058.rss I'm also experimenting with hootsuite.com which allows for multiple editors on one twitter account. Ping me if you'd like editor status in order to help keep @bsdevents populated with upcoming global BSD events or if you're aware of an upcoming event that isn't listed. Cheers, Dru Hi Dru: Thank you for the fantastic initiative. This is really very cool. Is there a service, wherein one can post a single update (twitter size) and it sort of goes to . orkut BSD . twitter BSD . facebook BSD . upcoming.yahoo BSD . google calendar BSD . ning BSD . blogspot BSD . identi.ca BSD . digg BSD . etc . forum BSD With this approach there will be a consistent message seen across the various web touch points. What do you think ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
BSD Certification in India
Hi all: Is there any BSD Certification service available in India ? thanks Saifi. ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org
