Re: Open Letter to Oracle re Linux (pls read and follow if you agree)
Date: 1995/10/03
Message-ID: <1995Oct3.020323.17714_at_nosc.mil>#1/1
Celestial Brewery (Bill Anglea) wrote:
>In article <44928f$q6f_at_maze.dpo.uab.edu>, sragan_at_hsf.uab.edu says...
>Interesting, I was looking to find information on running Oracle under
>Linux. I am seriously looking at purchasing SCO or Solaris specifically
>so that I can run Oracle Enterprise Server 7.x at home under UNIX.
>I would be more than willing to pay the exact same price for Oracle
>under Linux as I would for Oracle on an SCO or Solaris platform, maybe
>even a bit more.
>I agree that Oracle Corp. could make some significant in-roads against
>MS Access and SQL Server markets by making this port.
Sure would get my attention. Can't say as I'm please to pay 400 percent premiums to run Unix based Oracle on Sun hardware. Have VERY seriously considered running Solaris X86 though. Linux would be an instant switch!
Oracle seems to be thinking a little more progressively these days. And the comment previously in this thread about the first major RDBMS company that ports to Linux making a killing is obvious to any serious developer.
Gerry Massie- Received on Tue Oct 03 1995 - 00:00:00 CET