Not true, you'd still be in freefall. Do you think satellites in GEO experience gravity? If so, why don't they fall?
Satellites are falling, which is precisely why they a person on one wouldn't percieve any gravity. The same thing would occur
(briefly) if you were in an normal elevator that was falling down its shaft.
I think part of the problem with enterprise RDBMS is that its theoretically complex. Try skimming Gray's book on transaction processing, for instance. This is similar to the situation pointed out with respect to high-end crypto; I don't think there's too many people working on it as a hobby.
But doing the port protects MS from risk, and they don't have to release it just because they put some effort into doing a port.
On a related note, it looks like FileMaker might be working on a Linux port, check out job listing (#2971), which states: Experience with Unix/Linux development is required...
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This was a rat's nest of under the table dealing.
Apple sold the stock, got some extra cash, and a guarentee of MS Word for the Mac.
Microsoft got the stock, use of patents, and IE as the default Mac browser.
Satellites are falling, which is precisely why they a person on one wouldn't percieve any gravity.
The same thing would occur (briefly) if you were in an normal elevator that was falling down its shaft.
I think part of the problem with enterprise RDBMS is that its theoretically complex. Try skimming Gray's book on transaction processing, for instance. This is similar to the situation pointed out with respect to high-end crypto; I don't think there's too many people working on it as a hobby.
On a related note, it looks like FileMaker might be working on a Linux port, check out job listing (#2971), which states: Experience with Unix/Linux development is required...