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Oracle will announce today Oracle 8i for Linux. It will be available within 60 days. They are also giving away
20,000 copies of an "early access CD" for the people who will register. RedHat will be showing a new portal this week
(it's not available yet) which will include "everything that a Linux user need". Netscape will announce today the delivery of preview releases of Directory
and Messanger servers for Linux.
This reminds me of the guy at the Mozilla party whose card read: "My Ass Is a Portal."
I've got a few pics and recaps from the Expo and party
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Quicker
Great another platform that they are going to offer products for without a lick of decent support. The only real support you get is if you have a solaris box. The other platfors such as Digital Unix get the following treatment:
"hmm we don't know whats wrong. How about we fax you a NDA. For your troubles we will send you a debug build which you can install while your clients suffer - just to generate a core file, which you will send back to us. sound good?"
Thats Netscape tech support. true story
how can you people venture forth into such brightness? (why isn't rms talking at 2:30am instead of pm?) :-/
thi (ttn@netcom.com)
Of course, web-click licenses are probably on even shakier legal standing than shrink-wrap ones, but I can't afford a lawyer.
If you need something, consider the following DBs first, as they have free licenses:
- PostgreSQL
- GNU SQL
On a less-free note, but still of interest, there is also MySQL, although it's more of a glorified hash engine than a RDBMS.No, these products aren't as stable or feature-full. However, you are under no restrictions to limit yourself to the features they do offer. You can add as many of your own as you like. And you're also not limited in what you can do, say, or think about these DBs.
Jason
If more people would use the mirrors, then they'd be faster. If you're network installing RH, pick a site close to you. In the UK, for example, rather than wasting transatlantic bandwidth, just go to the Mirrors/ftp.redhat.com directory of sunsite.doc.ic.ac.uk
I know this would be common sense to most slashdot readers, but this message is just in case...
After reading this article, and following all the links, and learning how big and corporate the expo is, it's got me thinking. I've been using Linux a long time now, and been telling everyone how good it was, etc., etc. for years. I guess I'm sorta surprised now that people are now listening. I'm afraid that my Linux will be taken away from me and turned into some dastardly corporate bloatware, or maybe worse, just taken more away from the community. I'm almost thinking that I'd rather have it be a little clunky, and not many people use it, now that we've gone too far. Maybe it just wouldn't be as fun if everyone used it. :-)
Anybody else start feeling this way, or am I just being a whining sentimental??
So that's why Rob was logged in from dhcpsomething.redhat.com a few weeks ago.. And here I was thinking that Redhat was going to buy out slashdot. Oh well, I hope nobody pays attention to all the rumours spread on SlashNET then. :)
Perhaps redhat and VA could cooperate on making linux.com a portal site.. Now that would be interesting to see..
Just registered for my free CD. I can't wait to get my hands on that one
speaking of LinuxWorld Expo, anyone see the 4x G3 SMP demo. Its expensive as hell, but mabey they can explain how they pulled off that trick.
BTW: here is a site that has 4 G3's on a 64bit PCI card with 2 DIMM slots. Its for NT and MacOS. Hmmm...a B&W G3 with 3 of those card can have 13 processors and 2.5Gb of RAM....but the heat! heh
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Now we're nothing.
It's far easier to forgive your enemy after you get even with him.
With the newly announced LDAP support in the db, Oracle has really closed the loop on OS features in a database. Along with Raw Iron, this could turn out to be big in the Oracle vs. OS's (where the OS means OS for sale, like NT.) OS's like Linux should only benefit. /. in mid-November '98, still really interesting (if I may say so myself) with some posts from the Oracle team developing it. Also, the company I work for simultaneously announced an Oracle DBA outsourcing practice, with Michael Abbey heading it up (author of Tuning Oracle among other OP books). You can find out about that at The Pythian Group's website.
Some 8i-related links: my 8i editorial, featured on
Best regards, Paul
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When is Netscape making their directory server
available on Linux?
Think of it as giving other people more options, and giving you more opportunities.
After all, there's nothing saying you can't continue using Linux exactly as you have it on your machine right now.
D
It is amazing how much buz and excitement is being generated by this. I have been using linux at my office in small and hidden places for a little while, but only yesturday did our IS Manager start asking me about it. This is the same woman who said, "nothing will beat my HP's" just 3 months ago. Now she wants to setup some linux boxes to "play around a bit." Isn't it a great time to be alive? :)~
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