> which reminds me... there are Oracle and Informix comming up for Linux,
> and to fully use them, we will need some
> compilers/linkers/assemplers/whatever to work with linux libs, too...

FreeBSD has a "Linux development" port/package which might be worth
looking at (I haven't).

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