[nycbug-talk] FW: Oracle Meeting Results

[Hans Zaunere]

> i think this is very good news.
> 
> "not officially supported" but in development is a big step 
> in the right direction.

This is exciting news - maybe this is a petition topic?

H

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-advocacy at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-advocacy at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Matt Olander
> Sent: Thursday, January 15, 2004 5:00 PM
> To: advocacy at freebsd.org
> Subject: Oracle Meeting Results
> 
> 
> Today Peter Wemm and I met with Edward Screven the CTO at Oracle to 
> discuss the possiblity of Oracle on FreeBSD natively. The 
> meeting went 
> very well overall and Edward seemed to be cool with the idea.
> 
> Of course, the Oracle marketing engine is concerned if there 
> is a viable
> market for gearing up to do something of this nature.
> 
> What we ended up discussing is a 'not officially supported' 
> development
> version of Oracle downloadable from their website after filling in the
> standard who, what, where, and why type of form with the typical
> disclaimers, which I believe they already do for the other development
> versions.
> 
> In an attempt to placate his concerns about supporting a test download
> like this, we informed him that the FreeBSD community is used to
> figuring 
> out things on their own, and that we could possibly have a 
> couple of DBA
> contacts within the community act as primary contacts for initial
> support and an oracle specific mailing list.
> 
> I'll keep the list posted as we get any further (or not).
> 
> thanks Peter!
> 
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