Re: EnterpriseDB funding

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com>
Cc: Andy Astor <andya(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: EnterpriseDB funding
Date: 2005-09-08 03:18:19
Message-ID: 20050908031819.GA2174@wolff.to
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On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 15:48:56 -0700,
Ron Mayer <rm_pg(at)cheapcomplexdevices(dot)com> wrote:
> Congrats EnterpriseDB guys!
>
> http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news_view&newsId=20050907005471&newsLang=en
> " September 07, 2005 09:00 AM US Eastern Timezone
> EnterpriseDB Corporation Announces $7 Million in Venture
> Capital Financing; Charles River Ventures, Valhalla Partners
> Co-Lead Investment in Provider of Open-Source-Based Database...
> "
> (for the guys who don't know, Charles River is one of the
> top-tier VCs in the same league as the guys behind mysql)
>
>
> It'll be fun to see how you guys use this money. One idea
> that I'm sure you already thought of - perhaps team with a
> cost effective HW provider like Rackable and win
> the price/performance TPC benchmarks).

Getting funded by a VC isn't always that great.
http://www.spectrum.ieee.org/WEBONLY/resource/sep01/speak.html
http://www.waxy.org/random/arsdigita/

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