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RE: linux vs MS (slight twist on the topic)

From: Kevin Closson <kevinc_at_polyserve.com>
Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 12:19:49 -0700
Message-ID: <B9782AD410794F4687F2B5B4A6FF3501021D4D2F@ex1.ms.polyserve.com>


nothing to be proud of there...makes me feel really really old...  

but, gives perspective. until roughly 1993, informix sold more unix/xenix licenses than all of Oracle/Progress/Ingres/Unify combined.  

Any my employer at the time owned 33% of Informix and 50% of Wyse...we thought we were real hotdogs.  

See who can guess who the company was...now that would show who has their Unix chops  


	From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill_at_gmail.com] 
	Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 12:16 PM
	To: kevinc_at_polyserve.com
	Cc: Oracle-L_at_Freelists. Org (E-mail)
	Subject: Re: linux vs MS (slight twist on the topic)
	
	
	Showoff.  ;)
	
	
	On 10/11/05, Kevin Closson <kevinc_at_polyserve.com> wrote: 


		        I was running Oracle 7 on Linux via the Xenix
emulation bits,
		sometime
		        around 1995 IIRC.
		
		
		cool...not that is what I'm talking about.  I ported
		Oracle 5.1.7 to Xenix large model x.out in 1988 :-)
		
		Porting...hmmm.. make/fail/forensics/repeat :_)
		
		
		
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	-- 
	Jared Still
	Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist
	


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