Re: Oracle

[<aqy6633@acf5.nyu.edu>(Alex Yukhimets)]

> Slashdot ( http://www.slashdot.org/ ) has an article about Oracle's
> plans to support a Linux port. It cites
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/980908-000023.html which tells us that
> Oracle have signed up with RedHat, VA Research, Pacific HiTech, and
> SuSE. Slashdot (though not the cited article) refer to these as `all 4
> major distributions'. Debian is conspicuous only by its absence.
> 
> Does anyone know if this is likely to change in future, or will it
> soon be the case that if I want to run Oracle under Linux I should
> choose another distribution ?

Debian is not a company to "sign up with". You can use Oracle on Debian with
no problems whatsoever. It is even distributed in plain tarballs and not
rpms. You can download it right now, if you want.

Alex Y.
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