oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx gravou em 2006-04-07 15:43:44: > I'm choking on my Bier, Jared! Anyone with intimate knowledge of what > Operating System support a GOOD, boutique port of Oracle relies on knows > all too well that not even Oracle Corp has managed to influence the > Linux Kernel sufficiently! Some of the complete junk they are > mainlining > is astounding, and the motives for acceptance of same is generally a bit > dubious. There are usually good rationales, which maybe are not good for Oracle specifically. If you want a more conservative approach, you still have the Unices, with which GNU/Linux is interoperable. With MS, you're stuck. > The majority of Linux revenue is desktop, and it shows. 'nuff said. It > is a "good enough" situatation I feel. This is by design. Linus feels the desktop stresses the kernel mores and pushes it further, harder. Feel free to substitute Unix if you think like it: they are all open systems, more or less. -- Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete DUTRA Administrador de Bases de Dados +55 (11) 4390 5383 Toyota do Brasil Ltda ldutra@xxxxxxxxxxxxx São Bernardo do Campo, SP BRASIL -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l