| From: | Simon Riggs <simon(at)2ndquadrant(dot)com> |
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| To: | Dan Armbrust <daniel(dot)armbrust(dot)list(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: PostgreSQL 8.1 vs. MySQL 5.0? |
| Date: | 2005-10-07 21:02:25 |
| Message-ID: | 1128718945.8300.144.camel@localhost.localdomain |
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On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 13:32 -0500, Dan Armbrust wrote:
> >IBM have previously bought Informix (who bought Illustra, RedBrick,
> >Cloudscape) .... None of those take-
> >overs has led to a product actually surviving.
> >
> Thats not exactly true - Cloudscape was just given to Apache, and is now
> opensourced under the name "Derby"
> http://db.apache.org/derby/
Both the things we have said are true.
IBM bought Informix, who had bought Cloudscape. *Then* they gave it away
to Apache, since it is probably at about 4 years behind PostgreSQL at
current development rates on PostgreSQL.
Best Regards, Simon Riggs
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