Oracle intersted in buying Ubunutu

[Derek Broughton]

John Vivirito wrote:

> - From what i read in the newspaper they were making a version of oracle
> for linux. They didnt say anything about buying anything or anyone that
> i read in yesterdays paper. Im not quite sure where everyone is reading
> this. I would have thought (not positive but lastnights meeting someone
> would have said something about it) and i havent seen it on any official
> site.

They already did that part.  Every version of Oracle from 8i (at least -
that's the first one I installed) has run on Linux.  8i, 10g and XE have
all run on debian based distros (I never could get 9i to install). 
Oracle-XE though is free to use and distribute, and comes in a debian
package that "just works" on Ubuntu.
-- 
derek