Re: We want Oracle for Linux !!!

aak2_at_Ra.MsState.Edu (Atif Ahmad Khan) writes:

>
> Alvin Sylvain <alvin_at_c-square.no.junk> writes:
>
> >Atif Ahmad Khan wrote:
> >>
> >> If anybody at Oracle is listening :
> >>
> >> We want Oracle fo Red-Hat Linux !!!!
 

> >Don't tell us, there's nothing =we= can do about it!
>
> If you read my first line, I was addressing "somebody at Oracle".
>
> >Instead, try contacting Oracle at their web site, which I think
> >is something along the lines of http://www.oracle.com.
>
> I have already done that several times, not just about a Linux
> release but regarding other matters also. I think they are just
> piping it all to /dev/null
>
> >Altho you'll probably have to have a serious sales pitch to
> >make it happen. Oracle is interested in selling lots of
> >product for lots of money. Linux suffers from a) not having
> >as large a customer base, therefore there are fewer people
>
> Are you kidding me ? Or are you really serious ? There are more
> Linux users out there than Solaris users ! Anybody who thinks
> otherwise should come out of the hole that they have been living
> in for the past several years.
>
> >to sell to, and b) the people who get Linux are cost-conscious.
> >If not, they would have bought Solaris or something for several
> >10's of 100's of dollars. Instead, they bought Linux for the
> >price of thick book, or they downloaded for the price of a
> >phone connection. Therefore, Oracle for Linux would have to
>
> Uh ? Again you don't have the slightest idea of what you are
> talking about. Do you have any experience with the latest Linux at
> all ? Or do you just like talking about stuff that you are completely
> clueless about ? I paid for my Solaris OS !!! and I got my Linux
> for free !!! and I still would rather be using Linux !!! How much
> more clear do you want me to be ?
>
> >be =extremely= inexpensive (read: CHEAP), or folks won't buy.
>
> Stupidity has no end. I have bought Oracle for Solaris. I'll
> gladly buy Oracle for Linux ! (I have got my wallet out, I'd be willing
> to pay in advance). And there are alot of other folks like me ! Heck
> people are so desperate that they have bought the SCO version of Oracle
> and have been trying to get the SCO version to work under Linux.
>
> >This adds up to a pretty huge "We'll Just Wait And See" from
> >Oracle's point of view.
>
> Yeah, well, Oracle has fools like you making the decisions it seems.
>

Hm, being a happy Linux user myself (SparcLinux that is) i'm still impressed how some parts of the linux user community still makes idiots out of them self. I never thought that it would be possible that any Unix OS (we remember the Amiga/Atari, do we?) would get followers like a soccer team: (unwanted) hooligans.

The reasons for oracle not to maintain a Linux port are pretty obvious. There is simply no way to tell which combination of kernel / libc / modules/ init / binutils is available.

Otherwise, wouldn't it be possible for oracle to ship their own version of Linux?? (it's free after all)

Dirk

(trying to avoid all advocacy groups, but ..)

>
> Atif Khan
> aak2_at_ra.msstate.edu

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