Re: Problem with recent PostgreSQL related pressrelease

Simon Riggs wrote:
> > is misleading and dishonest, as is
> > preventing even the community from doing benchmarks. Please stop.
>
> My understanding is that the product requires a licence key to operate
> and that this is for revenue protection, not to explicitly prevent
> benchmarks. My understanding is that Sales is happy to let any serious
> buyer test the performance of the product.

The point I think people are making is that while you can do benchmarks,
you can't publish your results (which is similar to other commercial
database license restrictions).

While I cannot find the EnterpriseDB license wording on the EnterpriseDB
web site (bad), I did find a copy via Google that said:

http://var.immixgroup.com/docs/tcs/tcs_enterprisedb.pdf

4. License Restrictions. Client agree that Client will NOT: ...
(h) publish or make available to any third party any analysis of
the results of operation of the Software, including but not limited
to benchmarking results, without the prior written consent of
EnterpriseDB.

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