From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dan Cross Message-Id: <200105312014.QAA24479@augusta.math.psu.edu> To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Re: Thinknic and plan9 In-Reply-To: <20010531194342.B7DD519A33@mail.cse.psu.edu> Cc: Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 16:14:07 -0400 Topicbox-Message-UUID: abceac34-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 In article <20010531194342.B7DD519A33@mail.cse.psu.edu> you write: >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. McGinn questioned Ellison's divinity? - Dan C.