Re: We want Oracle for Linux !!!

In article <32DA9686.5C25_at_att.com>, Allen Kirby <akirby_at_att.com> wrote: [...]
>Now if Linux had thousands of users maybe they would consider it.

Thousands? At least tens of thousands. Some 20,000 have registered themselves at the Linux Counter. But this is considered to be a small percentage.

>Is Linux
>actually a supported platform now by a vendor - last I checked it was
>just shareware.

Commercial, supported versions do exist. Check http://www.ssc.com/linux/web.html. The Caldera distribution is rather popular. Several commercial applications are supported on Caldera Linux. Notably Wordperfect-6.0, the spreadsheet NeXs, and the MS-Windows emulator WABI. People pay real money for them.

Professional support by third party's is rapidly increasing. In Holland e.g. Reseau is specialised in this.

If Oracle would present a Linux version, it would be wise to limit support to a supported Linux distribution.

>> Yeah, well, Oracle has fools like you making the decisions it seems.

I'm afraid phrases like this (*not* from Allen Kirby), puts the Linux community in a wrong perspective. It's not really an encouragement for Oracle or any other commercial application developer...

A better thing to keep in mind for a application developer is that a lot of young system administrators and other professionals nowadays learn a lot from working with Linux, and simply don't want to part with it.

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