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 licensed OWL: http://owl.

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
On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 9:28 AM, wrote: > >> That whoever wrote that post is very closed minded, has no problem >> condemning something prior to investigation, and perhaps wears a pair of >> glasses that only come in one shade. > > Oracle is an expensive business application that is expected to b

Re: why no Oracle on FreeBSD ?

2009-09-25 Thread telmnstr
That whoever wrote that post is very closed minded, has no problem condemning something prior to investigation, and perhaps wears a pair of glasses that only come in one shade. Oracle is an expensive business application that is expected to be VERY reliable. It's expected to have a high end s

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