[Glastonbury] suse license

[tim hall]

Last Tuesday 16 November 2004 20:02, Andrew M.A. Cater was like:
> No, Oracle isn't free software. It's commercial and I don't _think_ you
> can easily get source and modify it as such. You pay Oracle for support.
>
> > Do you mean to say that Oracle is Free Software? or just that it would
> > run on a Debian system?
>
> Oracle will run on almost any Linux system given a bit of work - but it
> won't be _supported_ on anything other than a few heavyweight enterprise
> server editions of the various distributions. Yoyo principle applies
> (You're on your own, pal :) )
>
> Apparently, Oracle may require the Linux vendor to install dedicated
> support workers at the distribution's expense to join the Oracle systems
> support teams - that's a significant salary cost and one that the Debian
> Project, for example, couldn't afford.

As I thought.
Fine, well I'm happy with PostgreSQL anyway.

cheers 

tim hall
http://glastonburymusic.org.uk