Re: Oracle
In <[🔎] 13854.11277.592515.275071@joanna.william.org>, on 10/09/98
at 04:36 PM, Martin Oldfield <m@mail.tc> said:
>>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Yukhimets <aqy6633@acf5.nyu.edu> writes:
> Alex> Debian is not a company to "sign up with". You can use
> Alex> Oracle on Debian with no problems whatsoever. It is even
> Alex> distributed in plain tarballs and not rpms. You can download
> Alex> it right now, if you want.
>Personally I think that this misses the point. If Oracle support RedHat
>and I can just get the software and install it then it's a much more
>attractive proposition than having to install tarballs on Debian. Is it
>too much to hope that Debian's supposedly superior technology would
>persuade Oracle to release their software in a .deb ?
And if they won't take the "trouble" of making a .deb, maybe
someone interested can offer to make the .deb for them? Or
supply a script that does the job?
Helge
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