Ross J. Reedstrom wrote: > On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 11:05:07AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote: > > I think we are going to see more company-funded developers working on > > PostgreSQL. There are a handful now, but I can see lots more coming. > > I am going to work on getting those funding companies more visibility. > > We originally were concerned that such involvement may harm the > > development process, but history has shown that it has only been a huge > > benefit for the community. > > I agree, and it's also true that while the visibility of all you > paid-to-hack types is high, the fact that you _are_ paid, and by wha > companies, is not. > > Just recently, one of the GnuE developers has been running on about SapDB, > and mentioned how they've got '100 paid developers at SAP' and seemed to > think that since GreatBridge died, pgsql is back to all volunteer. The > fact that GB wasn't the first nor the only nor the last corp. funding > pgsql development was clearly missed, even among a relatively PG savvy > user community (GnuE is the GNU/Enterprise middleware system, and is is > pgsql as its primary developement backend http://www.gnuenterprise.org/ )
Yes, it is very invisible now. -- Bruce Momjian | http://candle.pha.pa.us [EMAIL PROTECTED] | (610) 359-1001 + If your life is a hard drive, | 13 Roberts Road + Christ can be your backup. | Newtown Square, Pennsylvania 19073 ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
