Free Software is beneath our notice.....
Posted Aug 2, 2005 4:06 UTC (Tue) by
roelofs (subscriber, #2599)
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Free Software is beneath our notice..... by ccchips
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Second visit to Taiwan (RMS Blog)
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
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