Re: RHEL

Richard Huxton wrote:
> On Thursday 13 November 2003 11:16, Alvaro Herrera wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 09:34:27AM +0000, Richard Huxton wrote:
> > > On Thursday 13 November 2003 04:52, Craig O'Shannessy wrote:
> > > > So, what ever happened to the "RedHat database"? I though RH was going
> > > > to be hiring core PostgreSQL developers? Anyone got a URL to explain
> > > > what happened to this venture? Sorry if I'm getting a little OT here.
> > >
> > > It exists, and they did hire. You get PG, some graphical utilities (java,
> > > open-sourced) and some support for your money.
> >
> > That means I could get Tom Lane to answer some question about Pg? Wow,
> > that's impressive.
>
> We are somewhat spoilt in the PG community as regards prompt attention from
> the core developers (and Tom in particular).
>
> On the other hand, if I was paying for support, I can't think of anyone else
> I'd rather get a response from.

Commercial support is good when you have a tough problem that requires
lots of digging, and the support guys will do the digging for you.

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