Why no SAP nor DB2 on FreeBSD ?

Ivan Voras ivoras at freebsd.org
Mon Sep 28 09:05:56 UTC 2009


Saifi Khan 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 ?

An obvious guess would be that the userbase is too small and that makes
it unprofitable to support the products on FreeBSD.

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