On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 09:21:07AM +0200, [email protected] wrote: > On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 03:40:19PM +0100, Sam Mason wrote: > > Maybe you could look at how EnterpriseDB or CommandPrompt operate. > > EnterpriseDB is proprietary software; please don'n recommend it here.
Interesting response and not a great way to build community, how about giving me the benefit of the doubt? I mentioned them because they run a commercial organization that contributes a lot to the free software world--I didn't mean to recommend their non-free version of PG. They employ a large number of the core contributors to Postgres and this seems like a good thing to me. The fact that they have to support these developers by selling a non-free version just seems to be a reflection of the current market to me. > CommandPrompt seems to be fine though -- another nice example of a > successful free software company :-) Please be aware that "nice" here is very loaded with your conceptions of what a "good" software company should be. I'm not saying it's good or bad, just to be aware that you're making some pretty broad statements. BTW, I'm in academia so it's in my interest to be open and release things, other entities have other goals and I wouldn't want to impinge upon them unless they were forcing their desires on me. -- Sam http://samason.me.uk/
