I went to a conference back before Oracle ran on Linux and ran on an Oracle admin/developer. He said he had been running Oracle on his desktop (remember those? right? ... well this was in the last millennium). He had been running oracle on his machine for personal hacking on it for over a year. It was a marketing decision (at that time Linux was not considered "Data Center Worthy"(tm). He said he didn't need to fix anything or even change libraries, it just compiled and ran without a hitch.
I am sure marketing decisions included bringing support and sales folks 'up to speed', not an insignificant investment, but the NIH/Data Center Worth issues were more of a blocking factor for that product. I am sure other products are similar in nature. ... Talking to the creator of CamBam way back when. He basically wrote it for Windows. Converting to Linux was non-trivial, where going the other way seems to be easier. CamBam is basically a one man band. I have nothing against small developers, but as a customer, I assume some risks that aren't there with many larger concerns. Oracle/IBM/M$/etc won't close the doors in one quarter if the balance sheet or health of the proprietor can if business goes sideways. Most won't but it is still a risk to consider. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
