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 set

Re: Why no SAP nor DB2 on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-28 Thread Tony Theodore
2009/9/28 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 installati

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 P

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 b

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. http://asci

Re: 2008 EuroBSDCon PDF and Audio ?

2009-09-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, Reference: > From: Saifi Khan > Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:35:30 +0530 (IST) > Message-id: Saifi Khan wrote: > 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

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

2009-09-28 Thread Kevin Hatfield
e how Oracle want people to believe that a few 100's thousand dollars > for their software is vastly superior to any other DB in the world is > just nonsense. > There is not any other mass scale pieces of software that most company's > need where there is some how a magically

Re: Why no SAP nor DB2 on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-28 Thread Ivan Voras
2009/9/28 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

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 c

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 http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-

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=article&item=freebsd8_ubuntu910&num=1 Jan -- --- | Jan Husar | | doing what matters | http://www.earthcause.org | http://www.skosi.org Open Source mission to Kosovo and eastern balcans http://www.facebook.com/

Re: leveraging FOSS, especially FreeBSD

2009-09-28 Thread Julian H. Stacey
Hi, > From: Don Wilde 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 to be open for

Re: leveraging FOSS, especially FreeBSD

2009-09-28 Thread Don Wilde
What is incorrect, Julian? I interviewed both Kirk McK and Berkeley's chief legal beagle several years ago. If I'm incorrect, I'd prefer to get it right. I even bought Kirk's video after a FBSD convention a long time back. He was drinking beer by the pitcher, so I'm sure he was more forthcoming th

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 com

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 wrote: > D

Re: leveraging FOSS, especially FreeBSD

2009-09-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Don Wilde 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 translates to approxim

Re: leveraging FOSS, especially FreeBSD

2009-09-28 Thread Don Wilde
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. Thank you both for the corrections. AFA pitchers of beer, it was meant as a friendly dig on an insider's list and not meant as disrespect for Kirk's achievements, which h

Re: leveraging FOSS, especially FreeBSD

2009-09-28 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Don Wilde 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 on open source li

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 mentione

Re: leveraging FOSS, especially FreeBSD

2009-09-28 Thread Madika Vuite
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Don Wilde wrote: > What is incorrect, Julian? I interviewed both Kirk McK and Berkeley's > chief legal beagle several years ago. If I'm incorrect, I'd prefer to > get it right. > > I even bought Kirk's video after a FBSD convention a long time back. > He was drin