RE: linux vs MS (slight twist on the topic)

>> but, gives perspective. until roughly 1993,

>> informix sold more unix/xenix licenses than

>> all of Oracle/Progress/Ingres/Unify combined.
   

Realize that every AT&T Unix System V box (3b's, even the PC6300PLUS) shipped with Informix standard......prolly how they got their numbers so high......    

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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce_at_freelists.org] On Behalf Of Kevin Closson Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 2:20 PM
To: Oracle-L_at_Freelists. Org (E-mail)
Subject: RE: linux vs MS (slight twist on the topic)  

nothing to be proud of there...makes me feel

really really old...  

but, gives perspective. until roughly 1993,

informix sold more unix/xenix licenses than

all of Oracle/Progress/Ingres/Unify combined.  

Any my employer at the time owned 33% of

Informix and 50% of Wyse...we thought we were

real hotdogs.  

See who can guess who the company was...now

that would show who has their Unix chops                     

	From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill_at_gmail.com] 
	Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 12:16 PM
	To: kevinc_at_polyserve.com
	Cc: Oracle-L_at_Freelists. Org (E-mail)
	Subject: Re: linux vs MS (slight twist on the topic)

	Showoff.  ;)

	On 10/11/05, Kevin Closson <kevinc_at_polyserve.com> wrote: 

	
	        I was running Oracle 7 on Linux via the Xenix emulation
bits,
	sometime
	        around 1995 IIRC.
	
	
	cool...not that is what I'm talking about.  I ported
	Oracle 5.1.7 to Xenix large model x.out in 1988 :-)
	
	Porting...hmmm.. make/fail/forensics/repeat :_)
	
	
	
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