RE: linux vs MS (slight twist on the topic)
- From: "Hollis, Les" <Les.Hollis@xxxxxx>
- To: <kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Oracle-L@Freelists. Org (E-mail)" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 11 Oct 2005 14:54:21 -0500
>> but, gives perspective. until roughly 1993,
>> informix sold more unix/xenix licenses than
>> all of Oracle/Progress/Ingres/Unify combined.
Realize that every AT&T Unix System V box (3b's, even the PC6300PLUS)
shipped with Informix standard......prolly how they got their numbers so
high......
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[mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kevin Closson
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 2:20 PM
To: Oracle-L@Freelists. Org (E-mail)
Subject: RE: linux vs MS (slight twist on the topic)
nothing to be proud of there...makes me feel
really really old...
but, gives perspective. until roughly 1993,
informix sold more unix/xenix licenses than
all of Oracle/Progress/Ingres/Unify combined.
Any my employer at the time owned 33% of
Informix and 50% of Wyse...we thought we were
real hotdogs.
See who can guess who the company was...now
that would show who has their Unix chops
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From: Jared Still [mailto:jkstill@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2005 12:16 PM
To: kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Oracle-L@Freelists. Org (E-mail)
Subject: Re: linux vs MS (slight twist on the topic)
Showoff. ;)
On 10/11/05, Kevin Closson <kevinc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I was running Oracle 7 on Linux via the Xenix emulation
bits,
sometime
around 1995 IIRC.
cool...not that is what I'm talking about. I ported
Oracle 5.1.7 to Xenix large model x.out in 1988 :-)
Porting...hmmm.. make/fail/forensics/repeat :_)
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