Re: Oracle buying Sleepycat, JBoss, and

On Monday 27 February 2006 17:14, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Jim C. Nasby wrote:
> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2006 at 11:25:32AM +0000, Guido Barosio wrote:
> >> fyi
> >>
> >> http://www.javaworld.com/javaworld/jw-02-2006/jw-0227-iw-opensource.html
> >
> > "Each of the top three relational database vendors—IBM, Microsoft,
> > and Oracle—now offers a version of its flagship product for
> > download, free of charge."
> >
> > Man, have the 1984 history re-writers been at it, or are people just
> > clueless? Oracle has allowed free downloads since at least 9i. And
> > what's more, those were uncrippled versions. You just couldn't use them
> > legally in production.
>
> They probably mean free to use in production.

they need to be linking against -ldwimnwis  in that event.



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> Joshua D. Drake
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