Re: What is this about?

On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 04:23:35PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Lance Obermeyer wrote:
> >Snipped from Jonathan Schwartz's blog most recent blog entry (COO
> >of sun).
> >
> >Another really interesting and growing community is the open source
> >database community. There are some really interesting (and rapidly
> >growing) open source databases out there. Not many folks talk about
> >them, curiously. The most interesting to me are Red Hat's database
> ><http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/database/>, known as Postgres,
> >and MySQL <http://www.mysql.com>. For the most part, those products
> >lead the open source database world. What makes Red Hat's database
> >so interesting is that two of Red Hat's biggest backers are
> >database companies, and the continuing evolution of the Red Hat
> >database implies as Red Hat grows, so will the ubiquity of a free
> >alternative to Oracle and IBM. Maybe we should challenge Red Hat to
> >a scalability contest on Postgres. Hm. Hey Matthew, what do you
> >think? Let's find a neutral benchmark. I'll wear a red hat if we
> >lose. You can wear a Solaris t-shirt :) We might even provide the
> >hardware.
> >
>
> It is the continued hate rhetoric from sun about redhat. I wouldn't
> worry about it. If you are curious specifically about RedHat
> postgres it is called RedHat Database and it is PostgreSQL based.
> However it is kind of a bastard project.

I say, "bring it on." Of course, we'd have to be running on
Redhat/390 to make this fair. ;)

Cheers,
D
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