| From: | Darcy Buskermolen <darcy(at)wavefire(dot)com> |
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| To: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Cc: | "Joshua D(dot) Drake" <jd(at)commandprompt(dot)com>, "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com>, Guido Barosio <gbarosio(at)gmail(dot)com>, Robert Treat <xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net>, Chris Travers <chris(at)travelamericas(dot)com>, "Marc G(dot) Fournier" <scrappy(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Oracle buying Sleepycat, JBoss, and |
| Date: | 2006-02-28 17:02:06 |
| Message-ID: | 200602280902.10048.darcy@wavefire.com |
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On Monday 27 February 2006 17:14, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 11:25:32AM +0000, Guido Barosio wrote:
> >> fyi
> >>
> >> http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2006/jw-0227-iw-opensource.html
> >
> > "Each of the top three relational database vendors—IBM, Microsoft,
> > and Oracle—now offers a version of its flagship product for
> > download, free of charge."
> >
> > Man, have the 1984 history re-writers been at it, or are people just
> > clueless? Oracle has allowed free downloads since at least 9i. And
> > what's more, those were uncrippled versions. You just couldn't use them
> > legally in production.
>
> They probably mean free to use in production.
they need to be linking against -ldwimnwis in that event.
>
> Joshua D. Drake
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