Re: Why no SAP nor DB2 on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-28 Thread Ivan Voras
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

Re: Why no SAP nor DB2 on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-28 Thread Tony Theodore
2009/9/28 Ivan Voras ivo...@freebsd.org 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

Re: Why no SAP nor DB2 on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-28 Thread Saifi Khan
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

2008 EuroBSDCon PDF and Audio ?

2009-09-28 Thread Saifi Khan
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

Re: Why no SAP nor DB2 on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Thanks for providing the perspective on the issue. Here is a rather straight query, how do we grow the userbase ? IMO enough noise. Cheers, Julian -- Julian Stacey: BSD Unix Linux C Sys Eng Consultants Munich http://berklix.com Mail ASCII plain text not HTML Base64.

Re: 2008 EuroBSDCon PDF and Audio ?

2009-09-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: From: Saifi Khan saifi.k...@datasynergy.org Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:35:30 +0530 (IST) Message-id: alpine.bsf.2.00.0909281729110.99...@freebsd Saifi Khan wrote: Hi: Every year the EuroBSDCon has a new host site and the slides and audio/video seem to go

Re: freebsd-advocacy Digest, Vol 295, Issue 1

2009-09-28 Thread Kevin Hatfield
Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 259 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature Url : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-advocacy/attachments/20090928/986fcfbf/signature-0001.pgp -- Message: 6 Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 20:20:23 +1000 From: Tony Theodore

Re: Why no SAP nor DB2 on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-28 Thread Ivan Voras
2009/9/28 Saifi Khan saifi.k...@datasynergy.org: 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

Re: freebsd-advocacy Digest, Vol 295, Issue 1

2009-09-28 Thread Andrea Brancatelli
Il 28/09/2009 14.38, Kevin Hatfield ha scritto: The simplest most effective way to grow the FreeBSD userbase is indemnification. Large companies that purchase RHEL/SuSE, etc. It's not because they don't know what they're doing as someone mentioned above. Most of the large Enterprise RHEL/SUSE

leveraging FOSS, especially FreeBSD

2009-09-28 Thread Don Wilde
http://www.engineeringjobfuture.com/articles/leverage/open-source-software -- -- Don Wilde Engineering the Future http://www.EngineeringJobFuture.com ___ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list

FreeBSD 8.0 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks (also fbsd 7.2)

2009-09-28 Thread Jan Husar
check it out http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=freebsd8_ubuntu910num=1 Jan -- --- | Jan Husar | | doing what matters | http://www.earthcause.org | http://www.skosi.org Open Source mission to Kosovo and eastern balcans

Re: leveraging FOSS, especially FreeBSD

2009-09-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, From: Don Wilde dwil...@gmail.com Don Wilde wrote: http://www.engineeringjobfuture.com/articles/leverage/open-source-software Article contains The lawsuit was bitterly contested, but finally resolved. Everything developed before 1970 was declared by a judge

Re: leveraging FOSS, especially FreeBSD

2009-09-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Don Wilde wrote: What is incorrect, Julian? .. etc. In 1977 I started learning Unix V6 as a Unix newbie. There were no UCB bits I heard of till csh job control vi floated in to my Uni. a few years on, maybe 1980 +/- a year or 2, I'd guess about 82. Can't remember when I heard of first

Re: leveraging FOSS, especially FreeBSD

2009-09-28 Thread Don Wilde
Thank you, Julian - Me bits be scrambled, methinks. Apologies all, correcting it I am now., For the record, the agreement was made in 1994. Here is the complete text. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20041126130302760 -- :D On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Julian H. Stacey

Re: leveraging FOSS, especially FreeBSD

2009-09-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Don Wilde dwil...@gmail.com writes: What is incorrect, Julian? Pretty much everything about the lawsuit. http://oreilly.com/catalog/opensources/book/kirkmck.html http://www.groklaw.net/pdf/USLsettlement.pdf I found the phrase everything developed before 1970 particularly amusing, as it

Re: leveraging FOSS, especially FreeBSD

2009-09-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Don Wilde dwil...@gmail.com writes: Dag-Erling, I remember you quite well as a core developer, so I don't doubt that your knowledge of history is better than mine. Never been on core. My knowledge of this matter comes from researching it (thoroughly) for the history section of a presentation

Re: freebsd-advocacy Digest, Vol 295, Issue 1

2009-09-28 Thread CmdLnKid
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 10:20 -, andrea wrote: Il 28/09/2009 14.38, Kevin Hatfield ha scritto: The simplest most effective way to grow the FreeBSD userbase is indemnification. Large companies that purchase RHEL/SuSE, etc. It's not because they don't know what they're doing as someone mentioned