| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
| Cc: | Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>, Stephen Birch <sbirch(at)ironmountainsystems(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Inprise/Borland releasing Interbase as Open source |
| Date: | 2000-01-04 19:42:19 |
| Message-ID: | 200001041942.OAA20503@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> > They say they'll continue to sell it via their traditional channels
> > and sell support, too. So it's not really clear what open-source
> > means in this context. Open-source doesn't have to mean the disappearance
> > of license fees...
> >
> > >> You guys have done a great job - but, frankly, IB is better.
> > >
> > >In what ways?
> >
> > Outer joins, for one.
>
> currently being worked on by Thomas, schedualed for, I believe, v7.1 this
> summer ...
I have spoken to him about getting some minimal OUTER join functionality
in 7.0. Let's see what happens.
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