[GENERAL] IBM investing in EnterpriseDB

2008-03-26 Thread Clodoaldo
According to Slashdot IBM is investing in EnterpriseDB. What does it mean for Postgresql? Regards, Clodoaldo Pinto Neto -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general

Re: [GENERAL] IBM investing in EnterpriseDB

2008-03-26 Thread Dave Page
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 2:19 PM, Clodoaldo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to Slashdot IBM is investing in EnterpriseDB. What does it mean for Postgresql? In a nutshell? It helps EnterpriseDB continue to employ people like me, Bruce, Heikki, Greg, Pavan and the various other people from the

Re: [GENERAL] IBM investing in EnterpriseDB

2008-03-26 Thread Bruce Momjian
Clodoaldo wrote: According to Slashdot IBM is investing in EnterpriseDB. What does it mean for Postgresql? There should be no affect on the community, except that EnterpriseDB might be able to support the community a little better because of a little more funding. -- Bruce Momjian [EMAIL

Re: [GENERAL] IBM investing in EnterpriseDB

2008-03-26 Thread Richard Broersma
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 7:19 AM, Clodoaldo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to Slashdot IBM is investing in EnterpriseDB. What does it mean for Postgresql? There where 2 or 3 blogs posted on the PostgreSQL main page on this subject that were interesting. -- Regards, Richard Broersma Jr.

Re: [GENERAL] IBM investing in EnterpriseDB

2008-03-26 Thread Martin Gainty
: Re: [GENERAL] IBM investing in EnterpriseDB Clodoaldo wrote: According to Slashdot IBM is investing in EnterpriseDB. What does it mean for Postgresql? There should be no affect on the community, except that EnterpriseDB might be able to support the community a little better because

Re: [GENERAL] IBM investing in EnterpriseDB

2008-03-26 Thread Ron Mayer
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

Re: [GENERAL] IBM investing in EnterpriseDB

2008-03-26 Thread Joshua D. Drake
On Wed, 26 Mar 2008 12:12:48 -0700 Ron Mayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. IIRC

Re: [GENERAL] IBM investing in EnterpriseDB

2008-03-26 Thread Alex Vinogradovs
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*

Re: [GENERAL] IBM investing in EnterpriseDB

2008-03-26 Thread Brent Wood
Add Informix to the list of IBM's RDBMS products.. Also note that where Postgres has PistGIC as an OGC compliant geodata extension, IBM already supports this in both DB2 Informix, so an even higher degree if interoperability is there for geospatial data. Brent Wood Alex Vinogradovs [EMAIL

Re: [GENERAL] IBM investing in EnterpriseDB

2008-03-26 Thread Brent Wood
I need to learn to type!!! try PostGIS (how did that become PistGIC? I have no idea) Brent Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] 27/03/08 1:44 PM Add Informix to the list of IBM's RDBMS products.. Also note that where Postgres has PistGIC as an OGC compliant geodata extension, IBM already supports this

Re: [GENERAL] IBM investing in EnterpriseDB

2008-03-26 Thread Gregory Williamson
Brent Wood typed: I need to learn to type!!! try PostGIS (how did that become PistGIC? I have no idea) Brent Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] 27/03/08 1:44 PM Add Informix to the list of IBM's RDBMS products.. Also note that where Postgres has PistGIC as an OGC compliant geodata extension,