| From: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Stephen Birch <sbirch(at)ironmountainsystems(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Jan Wieck <jwieck(at)debis(dot)com>, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: [HACKERS] Inprise/Borland releasing Interbase as Open source |
| Date: | 2000-01-04 23:42:30 |
| Message-ID: | 200001042342.SAA00412@candle.pha.pa.us |
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> Since writing the above, I was called to attend a telecon with my manager and
> the ITS managers from our two biggest customers to discuss exactly this issue.
> The decision has been made to deploy the PostgreSQL based server. We all
> agreed that whatever happens to Interbase, the personal commitment by the
> PostgreSQL folks is not likely to dry up. Hence the code will continue to
> improve over time. I believe that they clearly understand how important
> reliability is to a database server.
All's well that end's well...
I have been very impressed over the three years of work on PostgreSQL
that everything is done is such a civilized matter. I mention that in
my book and in the development history.
Not sure how we have achieved this, but we certainly have.
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