Messages in this thread |  | | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: Oracle for Linux? (was Re: kernel bloat) | Date | Thu, 27 Jun 1996 09:28:35 +0100 (BST) |
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> > Btw, has anyone discussed this to Oracle? Many government groups use > > Oracle or Sybase and if a company like Oracle showed enough faith in > > Linux, then my bosses would probably follow. > > In April a friend of mine was at some Oracle conference or so and after the > event he talked with an Oracle man. He told my friend that Oracle 'due to > popular demand' really consider porting their database to Linux after 2.0 > shows up, and maybe even selling it for less money (rather hard to believe) > than for other platforms. > > Even if there are no so plans I think it's nice that Oracle official > know about Linux and that kernel 2.0 is coming soon (again, it was April).
All the stories from a long time have been that Oracle or some people in Oracle did a Linux port long ago (just to test portability). Some Oracle stuff runs under iBCS2 see
http://www.wmd.de/wmd/staff/pauck/misc/oracle_on_linux.html
Alan
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