DA Morgan wrote:
> What's proprietary about OSX/Darwin?
>
> What OS is at its foundation? BSD!
> What is the current status of Darwin? Open Source!
> What is proprietary in OSX? Aqua which is just the GUI.
Interesting, I didn't know that.
>
> When was the last time, in making a decision about a *NIX server
> operating system, did anyone care about the GUI? BASH is BASH,
> Korn is Korn, vi is vi etc. Open a terminal window and it is *NIX.
> And that is where any Oracle DBA will be doing 99% of their work.
But that still doesn't eman that a given app is as well tested on this
platform as on others.
Time will tell I s'pose what will happen there.
I'll keep my chips placed on Linux for the mainstreams...
Cheers
Serge
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Serge Rielau
DB2 SQL Compiler Development
IBM Toronto Lab
Received on Sun May 22 2005 - 06:16:07 CDT
