Re: Mac OS X & Mac OS X Server

drak0nian_at_yahoo.com (Paul Drake) wrote in message news:<1ac7c7b3.0402030825.7590fc21_at_posting.google.com>...

> Oracle has released ZERO products for ANY BSD distribution.
> Not NetBSD, OpenBSD (wouldn't they want to run Trusted Oracle on
> OpenBSD?) and not FreeBSD, with reportedly the fastest TCP/IP stack
> out there.

I can verify this. Mac OS X's Darwin core is based on FreeBSD code. The TCP/IP transfer rates I get are unbelievable - a 120 KB/sec transfer from download-east or download-west.oracle.com on a Windows box will hit 350+ KB/sec on my Powerbook when I set them up head-to-head. At first I thought it was the Gigabit Ethernet port, but then I used a PC with a giga port.. and saw the same results.

> guess I'll never understand marketing.

Larry was on Apple's board of directors for some time (no longer, I don't believe - Al Gore replaced him). But he's still friends with Steve-o, so.... there's probably a small number of people dedicated to making it work.

From a marketing perspective, I can kind of see it as a "novelty platform". In the shoe store I used to work at, they had a pair of Snake-skinned and Ostrich-skinned cowboy boots for sale, for between CDN $450 to 950+. Not that anyone really ever bought a pair, maybe one every two or three years - but it sure drew onlookers to the boots area.

Cheers
Stu Received on Tue Feb 03 2004 - 21:58:38 CST