Re: The Business Case for PostgreSQL

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 08:31:59AM -0400, Chris Browne wrote:
> xzilla(at)users(dot)sourceforge(dot)net (Robert Treat) writes:
> > On Sunday 17 June 2007 23:10, Chris Browne wrote:
> >> "From the outset, PostgreSQL was constructed to meet the goals of
> >> active businesses which could rely on it as a core element of their
> >> mission-critical IT infrastructure."
> >>
> >> Nope. At the outset, it was constructed as a research project. When
> >> it became an OSS project, I'm not sure those were yet the goals.
> >
> > Yeah, this one is probably more problematic. Could it be argued
> > that, having created one system and seeing how it fared
> > commercially, that Stonebreaker & Co. did have in mind the idea of
> > POSTGRES becoming a basis for a commercial system as well? Maybe
> > someone from the "Old School" can comment?

As we all know Stonebraker's commercial branch of Postgres circa 1992
was called Miro'/Montage/Illustra. Then they got bought by Informix,
the stock dropped, Informix was split up and the database went to IBM.

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