Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-30 Thread LoH
The reality is that Oracle is meant to be a very expensive solution for companies that don't know what to do. This makes Red Hat etc an ideal contender for this situation as it promises full enterprise support. Whether it is the truth or if its even a good solution is completely irreverent to

Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-27 Thread Michael Vince
On 25/09/2009 10:28 PM, Saifi Khan wrote: 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 commerci

Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-27 Thread Charlie Kester
On Sun 27 Sep 2009 at 12:25:50 PDT Chris Rees wrote: This guy replying to your post was a troll, basically. Ignore him, and Yep. It shows that some Linux fans are just as prone to creating FUD as their adversaries in the Windows world. I'd like to think the BSD community is better than that.

Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-27 Thread Chris Rees
2009/9/25 Saifi Khan : > 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 direc

Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-25 Thread Chad Perrin
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:28:20AM -0400, telmn...@757.org wrote: > > I'd be willing to bet there is little to no commercial demand for Oracle > on FreeBSD. I wonder how much difference Oracle availability on FreeBSD would make, here. -- Chad Perrin [ original content lice

Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-25 Thread Philippe Laquet
Dag-Erling Smørgrav a écrit : Saifi Khan writes: The response seems to suggest [...] ...nothing except that whoever wrote it has absolutely no idea what they're talking about. DES I know that the question was about "native" FreeBSD port but did someone tried / used Oracle on to

Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-25 Thread Andrew Gould
oops. After replying to all, I noticed that this thread is cross-posted to both freebsd-questions and freebsd-advocacy. (Although I removed advocacy from this reply.) fyi ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/li

Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-25 Thread Andrew Gould
t; few OSes they officially support. Probably Solaris, Redhat and their own > Linux distro. This is a huge deal to them. > > Think of it as an appliance. If you hate Linux, help Solaris. Run your > oracle on your Solaris system, and hit it from your FreeBSD system. > > I'd

Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-25 Thread telmnstr
Solaris system, and hit it from your FreeBSD system. I'd be willing to bet there is little to no commercial demand for Oracle on FreeBSD. Heck, look at all the SGI went through with Oracle, and the rumors were that Oracle ran faster than any other platform on IRIX for a while. Oracle wouldn&#

Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-25 Thread Steve Bertrand
Saifi Khan wrote: > 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 applicati

Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-25 Thread Dag-Erling Smørgrav
Saifi Khan writes: > The response seems to suggest [...] ...nothing except that whoever wrote it has absolutely no idea what they're talking about. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - d...@des.no ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.fr

Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-25 Thread krad
2009/9/25 Saifi Khan > 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 a

Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-25 Thread Saifi Khan
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 ve

Re: oracle on freeBSD

2006-01-07 Thread Ceri Davies
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 06:29:15PM +, eoghan wrote: > On 6 Jan 2006, at 20:40, Ceri Davies wrote: > >On 4 Jan 2006, at 18:59, eoghan wrote: > > > >>Hello > >>Im wondering if there is any info on getting oracle running on > >>freeBSD (im using 6.0). I have found this: > >>http://www.scc.nl/~ma

Re: oracle on freeBSD

2006-01-07 Thread eoghan
On 6 Jan 2006, at 20:40, Ceri Davies wrote: On 4 Jan 2006, at 18:59, eoghan wrote: Hello Im wondering if there is any info on getting oracle running on freeBSD (im using 6.0). I have found this: http://www.scc.nl/~marcel/howto-oracle.html But it seems a little dated. I read oracle doesnt of

Re: oracle on freeBSD

2006-01-06 Thread Ceri Davies
On 4 Jan 2006, at 18:59, eoghan wrote: Hello Im wondering if there is any info on getting oracle running on freeBSD (im using 6.0). I have found this: http://www.scc.nl/~marcel/howto-oracle.html But it seems a little dated. I read oracle doesnt officially support freeBSD and was pointed to

Re[2]: oracle on freeBSD

2006-01-04 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello eoghan, Wednesday, January 4, 2006, 10:16:40 PM, you wrote: > On 4 Jan 2006, at 20:09, Daniel Gerzo wrote: >> Hello eoghan, >> >> Wednesday, January 4, 2006, 7:59:44 PM, you wrote: >> >>> Hello >>> Im wondering if there is any info on getting oracle running on >>> freeBSD (im using 6.0). I

Re: oracle on freeBSD

2006-01-04 Thread eoghan
On 4 Jan 2006, at 20:09, Daniel Gerzo wrote: Hello eoghan, Wednesday, January 4, 2006, 7:59:44 PM, you wrote: Hello Im wondering if there is any info on getting oracle running on freeBSD (im using 6.0). I have found this: we have a section in handbook about setting up oracle, but it's outda

Re: oracle on freeBSD

2006-01-04 Thread Daniel Gerzo
Hello eoghan, Wednesday, January 4, 2006, 7:59:44 PM, you wrote: > Hello > Im wondering if there is any info on getting oracle running on > freeBSD (im using 6.0). I have found this: we have a section in handbook about setting up oracle, but it's outdated now, though there are some people repo

oracle on freeBSD

2006-01-04 Thread eoghan
Hello Im wondering if there is any info on getting oracle running on freeBSD (im using 6.0). I have found this: http://www.scc.nl/~marcel/howto-oracle.html But it seems a little dated. I read oracle doesnt officially support freeBSD and was pointed to a link here of people working with it: h

TOra - Toolkit For Oracle on freebsd 5.3

2004-11-22 Thread eodyna
Hi Guys, I need a front end client to access Oracle databases on my network. I came across TOra. There is a linux version but not a bsd one. heh. Ummm, has anyone installed TOra on freebsd? If so, is there a "How-to-guide" somewhere? Or does anyone know of a good front end client to access Oracle

Re: Oracle on FreeBSD

2003-02-25 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Trent Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:12:52AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Trent Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > > I'm interested in seeing how well something like PostgreSQL can be > > > used as a ``drop-i

Re: Oracle on FreeBSD

2003-02-25 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
The most notable of these would be date/time and null handling. Also parameter binding. One big one you'll hit with Oracle is trying to insert a string > 2000 characters with ODBC into a LONG column. another i.e. ORACLE to_date('2003/01/03' '12:05:03 A.M.') MSSQL 2003/01/03' '12:05:03

Re: Oracle on FreeBSD

2003-02-25 Thread Bill Moran
Trent Nelson wrote: On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:12:52AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Trent Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: I'm interested in seeing how well something like PostgreSQL can be used as a ``drop-in'' replacement for Oracle. If I have clients connecting

Re: Oracle on FreeBSD

2003-02-25 Thread Trent Nelson
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 10:12:52AM -0600, Mike Meyer wrote: > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Trent Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > > I'm interested in seeing how well something like PostgreSQL can be > > used as a ``drop-in'' replacement for Oracle. If I have clients > > connecting via O

Re: Oracle on FreeBSD

2003-02-25 Thread Mike Meyer
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Trent Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed: > I'm interested in seeing how well something like PostgreSQL can be > used as a ``drop-in'' replacement for Oracle. If I have clients > connecting via ODBC (Rational ClearQuest), I personally couldn't > care what the

Re: Oracle on FreeBSD

2003-02-25 Thread Trent Nelson
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 11:21:04PM +, Philip M. Gollucci wrote: > I've also notice that the FAQ on the FreeBSD site is for 3.2 and ORALCE 7 > > Aren't we on oracle 9i and FreeBSD 5.0 ? > > Since I have to do this so that I can test things locally, I wouldn't mind > doing a web write up for th

Re: Oracle on FreeBSD

2003-02-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-02-24T23:18:47Z, Damien Hull <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Also, if any of you feel that running Oracle on FreeBSD is a bad idea let > me know. One question: does Oracle support running on FreeBSD? If not, then it's a bad idea; the first tech support call that ends as

Re: Oracle on FreeBSD

2003-02-24 Thread Philip M. Gollucci
think you'll have issues > with emulation mode,. except for performance, which could be pretty big. > I suggest just stick with linux for oracle. > > On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Damien Hull wrote: > > Can you run Oracle on FreeBSD? > > > > So far I've found some inf

Re: Oracle on FreeBSD

2003-02-24 Thread synrat
erformance, which could be pretty big. I suggest just stick with linux for oracle. On Mon, 24 Feb 2003, Damien Hull wrote: > Can you run Oracle on FreeBSD? > > So far I've found some information on installing Oracle using Linux > emulation but nothing about running it in native mo

Oracle on FreeBSD

2003-02-24 Thread Damien Hull
Can you run Oracle on FreeBSD? So far I've found some information on installing Oracle using Linux emulation but nothing about running it in native mode. Also, if any of you feel that running Oracle on FreeBSD is a bad idea let me know. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]