| From: | "Jim C(dot) Nasby" <jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com> |
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| To: | Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org> |
| Cc: | pgsql-advocacy(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Oracle buying^W bought Sleepycat and OSBC news |
| Date: | 2006-02-14 21:52:20 |
| Message-ID: | 20060214215220.GI57845@pervasive.com |
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Sitting on the Oraocle table at OSBC this morning was a press release
announcing that they just bought sleepycat.
http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/02/14/75352_HNoraclebuyssleepycat_1.html
In other news, Sun has open-sourced their latest CPU
(http://opensparc.net) and EDB gave a brief presentation.
Sun's COO, Jonathan Schwartz (holy cow he's young) gave a keynote, and
one of the more interesting things he mentioned was that open source
enters organizations from the ground up; individual users deciding to
use software, not corporate edicts.
How does that relate to PostgreSQL? It becomes a matter of: what are we
doing to entice developers to choose PostgreSQL over some other
database, especially open source developers? As an example, think of how
many businesses now have MySQL installed on at least one machine in
order to support bugzilla?
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Jim C. Nasby, Sr. Engineering Consultant jnasby(at)pervasive(dot)com
Pervasive Software http://pervasive.com work: 512-231-6117
vcard: http://jim.nasby.net/pervasive.vcf cell: 512-569-9461
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