Re: Oracle to port to Linux!

Oracle, as with many other IT companies, are always reading the contents of specific
USENET newsgroups. As for who made the decision on the Linux port - well, since Larry
hates Bill and NT seems to be forever growing its market share - things had to be done.

1. Netscape giving away Browser and Sourcecode to try and stop IE
2. IBM to give OS/2 away free with sourcecode (a'la Netscape)
3. Oracle to release its port of O8 (not O7 thou?) to what amounts to a "freeware" O/S

They all "seem" to be extricably tied together - perhaps its a consertive attempt to tide the
flow of MS.

The pricing on Linux versions (you can bet) will be cheaper than NT seats.

Strange Oracle didnt release its port of Oracle7 which its had on its shelves for many a
year (I had a copy back when it was 7.2)

Regards

X.

nb: yep, I work/worked for Oracle

Bjorn Borud wrote in message ...
>[Jeffery Cann <jcann_at_fairway.com>]
>|
>| InfoWorld reports that Oracle will port Oracle 8 to Linux. I wonder
>| if some of the discussions in this newsgroup may have contributed to
>| their smart decision.
>
>I doubt that we'll ever find out but it would be interesting to know
>what made the difference and how you can get in touch with the people
>who made the decision.
>
>a USENET group becomes important to a corporation only when the press
>starts to quote messages from it or describe tendencies.
>
>the church of scientology is probably the only corporation that takes
>USENET seriously ;-)
>
>anyhow, it will be interesting to see what sort of pricing Oracle will
>have on their Linux products. I for one hope that they won't make the
>prices as high as "traditional UNIX pricing", but rather something
>like Windows NT. if the price is high we'll probably only buy one
>license, but if it is reasonable chances are that we will buy several
>licenses.
>
>-Bjørn
>--
> Bjørn Borud <borud_at_guardian.no> | "The Net interprets censorship
> <URL:http://www.pvv.unit.no/~borud/> | as damage and routes around it."
> UNIX person, one of "them" | - John Gilmore
Received on Wed Jul 22 1998 - 08:49:04 CDT