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Free Software is beneath our notice.....
Free Software is beneath our notice.....
Posted Jul 22, 2005 14:17 UTC (Fri) by ccchips (guest, #3222)Parent article: Second visit to Taiwan (RMS Blog)
The first time my company went to visit Oracle's sales facility, I offhandedly asked one of their staff about Linux. This was in about 1994. The guy got all red in the face and blustered that Oracle would *never* run on Linux because Linux was a toy.
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Free Software is beneath our notice.....
Posted Aug 2, 2005 4:06 UTC (Tue) by roelofs (subscriber, #2599) [Link]
This was in about 1994. The guy got all red in the face and blustered that Oracle would *never* run on Linux because Linux was a toy.Well, to be fair, Linux was something of a toy back then. 1.0.9 was the stable release, 1.1.x was in development, and while it was eminently usable as a desktop, I suspect Oracle (the DB) might very well have had requirements that were not met by the kernel and/or the userspace libraries and utilities.
Those were the days, though, you betcha. Livin' on the edge, trying not to blow up too many monitors with X modelines, never sure what hardware would work with both Linux and OS/2, etc. :-)
Greg