Re: Why no SAP nor DB2 on FreeBSD ?
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. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature
Re: Why no SAP nor DB2 on FreeBSD ?
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 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. Which then leads the FreeBSD community to give those products a miss and use alternatives, or find ways of running them without vendor support, which further reduces demand. I guess from an advocacy perspective, it's hard to get enthused about this as the alternatives seem more attractive. It's not like hardware drivers that do constrain usage and development. Tony ___ 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 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
Re: Why no SAP nor DB2 on FreeBSD ?
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. http://asciiribbon.org Virused Microsoft PCs cause spam. http://berklix.com/free/ ___ 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 ?
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 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 ? Something like that is very tedious and hard, mostly because it's a chicken-and-the-end problem. Vendors will not develop products (and device drivers) for platforms with few users because it's unprofitable, and users will not use new platforms that have low vendor support. For a very pertinent example, see Linux - it has a vastly bigger user base and it's still largely unsupported by sw hw vendors. There is no completely right solution for this - you can't even create a global survey of users that would possibly use a new platform if it were supported and submit it to vendors because the users are not well enough informed about it. One angle that would be interesting to play with vendors would be the BSD license - enabling them to create proprietary solutions - but apparently vendors are not that scared of the GPL. ___ 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, 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. ___ 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
