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

["Bill Eldridge" <bill_at_rfa.org>]
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| Larry discovered quite quickly with his Network Computer
| that if you plan on cutting out all the PC vendors, they'll
| quickly cut your throat.

exactly what _is_ the definition of a "Network Computer"? if it means "semi-diskless workstation" then there's no threat to the PC market at all since a PC running some neat OS like FreeBSD or Linux already can be made to jump through hoops -- and PCs are _cheap_.

if it means "special hardware for running JavaOS" it is time people got their heads out of their asses and realized that pure Java environments are for now at best a glimpse of the future.

-Bjørn

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