2009/9/28 Ivan Voras <ivo...@freebsd.org> > Saifi Khan wrote: > > Hi all: > > > > In continuation of my investigation of Oracle, i also noticed > > that there is: > > . no SAP for FreeBSD > > . no DB2 for FreeBSD > > . no Sybase ASE for FreeBSD > > . no Informix for FreeBSD > > > > Discouing PostgreSql installations, effectively enterprise > > database setups have given FreeBSD a miss. > > What could be reason for this ? > > An obvious guess would be that the userbase is too small and that makes > it unprofitable to support the products on FreeBSD. > > Which then leads the FreeBSD community to give those products a miss and use alternatives, or find ways of running them without vendor support, which further reduces demand.
I guess from an advocacy perspective, it's hard to get enthused about this as the alternatives seem more attractive. It's not like hardware drivers that do constrain usage and development. Tony _______________________________________________ freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-advocacy To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-advocacy-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
