Re: [HACKERS] Inprise/Borland releasing Interbase as Open source

From: Jan Wieck <wieck(at)debis(dot)com>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org>
Cc: Don Baccus <dhogaza(at)pacifier(dot)com>, Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Ansley, Michael" <Michael(dot)Ansley(at)intec(dot)co(dot)za>, "'PostgreSQL-development '" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Inprise/Borland releasing Interbase as Open source
Date: 2000-01-04 22:45:13
Message-ID: 387277F8.64CEDE35@debis.com
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The Hermit Hacker wrote:

> I wonder when they implemented theirs? Basically...is their's based on
> old technology/concepts, while ours is based on newer ones?

Maybe it's based on the same technology. If the've used a similar (HOT)
transactional concept for tuples, based legally on the PG technique
released under the BSD license years ago, they might have come to the
same conclusion. That'd mean - well - OLD concepts like ours.

Truth remains truth.

Jan

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