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RE: some interesting news from the linux arena
- To: Tzahi Fadida <muaddib(at-nospam)mailandnews.com>
- Subject: RE: some interesting news from the linux arena
- From: Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir(at-nospam)technion.ac.il>
- Date: Sat, 8 Sep 2001 22:02:35 +0200 (IST)
- Cc: Adi Stav <stav(at-nospam)actcom.co.il>, <linux-il(at-nospam)linux.org.il>
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- In-Reply-To: <LBEOILPMDDGLFONABBHNKEADCJAA.muaddib@mailandnews.com>
- Sender: linux-il-bounce(at-nospam)cs.huji.ac.il
Hi
On Sat, 8 Sep 2001, 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 :).
To spell this out explicitly: what got GreatBridge out of the market was
the fact that RedHat sells PostgreSQL better than them. See
http://www.redhat.com/software/database/
--
Tzafrir Cohen
mailto:tzafrir@technion.ac.il
http://www.technion.ac.il/~tzafrir
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