Re: We want Oracle for Linux !!!

On 18 Jan 1997 00:56:36 +0100, Dirk Vleugels <vleugels_at_do.isst.fhg.de> wrote:

>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 ..)
>

I thought that Oracle was proud of running Oracle on every toaster except the AS/400.

Other software that is pretty complex has been ported to linux and serves it purpuse very well.

Rainer Received on Tue Jan 21 1997 - 00:00:00 CST