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From: dmr@plan9.bell-labs.com
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Thinknic and plan9
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Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 15:43:39 -0400
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 > Oracle have been trying to market this box under various
 > guises for something like 5 years, they should give up.

As a bit of amusement, Oracle was very close (back in fairly
early Lucent Inferno BU time) to licensing Inferno for
this or similar boxes.  It was close enough that Ellison
and Rich McGinn had dinner to shake hands over the deal.
Then, quite suddenly, the deal fell apart, preumably
not because the dinner went poorly.

	Dennis