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Re: some interesting news from the linux arena



Tzahi, 

let me tell you the full story...

Great bridge was one of the biggest example of how NOT to run a company - 
either by altitude (סחי) or either by putting so many VP's around (all Yes 
Men of course)..

The only reason that I know that they refused Red Hat offer is because the 
CEO was on the Red Hat board of directors before he left to found Great 
Bridge - so he didn't want that his company to sell to Red Hat. As far as I 
know Red Hat was giving them a very good money offer with some good condition 
and a promise to increase development staff. Great Bridge CEO (and directors 
and VP's) didn't want to hear - so Red Hat said "fine", took the open source 
part and start selling it (quite well actually - look at their upcoming money 
report for this quater)..

Stupid Management == Dead Company. And I thought Eazel had the most stupid 
management (and product - to throw 15 million dollars on a file manager 
without a decent business plan -but thats another issue).

-- 
Hetz Ben Hamo (a.k.a - un-sleepable person)
hetz@kde.org

On Saturday 08 September 2001 23:25 pm, Tzahi Fadida wrote:
> you guys missed my meaning. i didn't say that postgre development will
> stop. no open source project can be stopped merely because the company who
> mainly developed it did. I was suggesting that a database that is supposed
> to be an alternative to oracle, cannot be successful unless it has a large
> company to support and provide quick updates, which can only occur if you
> have a paid development team and a large support department :).
>
>
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> Tzahi Fadida
> Tzahi@mailandnews.com
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