Why no SAP nor DB2 on FreeBSD ?

[Saifi Khan]

On Sat, 26 Sep 2009, Marius N?nnerich wrote:

> On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 08:57, Saifi Khan <saifi.khan at datasynergy.org> wrote:
> > Hi all:
> >
> > In continuation of my investigation of Oracle, i also noticed
> > that there is:
> >  . no SAP for FreeBSD
> >  . no DB2 for FreeBSD
> >  . no Sybase ASE for FreeBSD
> >  . no Informix for FreeBSD
> >
> > Discouing PostgreSql installations, effectively enterprise
> > database setups have given FreeBSD a miss.
> > What could be reason for this ?
> 
> Same answer as last time: Please ask the respective vendors and report back.
> 

This cannot be accidental. So this time, i've taken a two-pronged approach.
1. checking information on vendor sites and with contacts.
2. close analysis of discussions on freebsd-hackers during 2003-2005 time frame.


thanks
Saifi.