Re: native Oracle-port on Linux -- what would it take?

Carleton Vaughn wrote:
>

 ....stuff....
> Here's a rumor: two years ago I was taking an Oracle class, and
> the very subject of Oracle on Linux came up. The instructor said
> he had heard of the issue, and said Oracle's concern at the time
> was a *legal* rather than a marketing issue. It seems that
> Oracle's legal department was under the impression that any
> product that ran under Linux was automatically subject to the GPL,
> which would have forced them to publish the source code. My
> understanding is that this is not something they want to do. My
> other understanding is that this is not true, but who's Larry
> gonna believe, some random Linux [w]hacker or one of his
> high-priced lawyers who snarfed the wrong version of the GPL?
>
> Maybe they wanted to dynamically link libc; I dunno.

I heard that an internal port of Oracle to Linux has already taken place. Don't know which version. Given Informix's lack of response on the Linux front....I'd think that it would be mega-kudos all around if Oracle provided a Linux offering.

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