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Re: IBM investing in EnterpriseDB
- From: Alex Vinogradovs <AVinogradovs(at)Clearpathnet(dot)com>
- To: Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>
- Cc: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, Clodoaldo <clodoaldo(dot)pinto(dot)neto(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL - General ML <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
- Subject: Re: IBM investing in EnterpriseDB
- Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:20:26 -0700
- Message-id: <1206559226(dot)59110(dot)22(dot)camel(at)localhost>
Shouldn't forget IBM got DB2. Could be they are just seeking additional userbase in opensource market space... On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 12:12 -0700, Ron Mayer wrote: > Clodoaldo wrote: > > ...IBM is investing...What does it mean for Postgresql? > > One cool thing it means is that there are now *two* > companies (thanks again Fujitsu) bigger than > Oracle backing (to some extent) Postgres. > > And now one company bigger than Microsoft. > > Yeah, this doesn't affect the community much. But it > sure comes in useful when your CFO calls you into a > meeting and says "Hey, I just had lunch with > our Microsoft rep and he asked why we're running > some unsupported freeware database." > > Your CFO wouldn't want to run your company on a > database - like Oracle 10i and MySQL and SQLServer - that > are only backed by little (under $50B revenue) guys, would he? > > :-) > >
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