Re: IBM investing in EnterpriseDB

Add Informix to the list of IBM's RDBMS products.. Also note that where Postgres has PistGIC as an OGC compliant geodata extension, IBM already supports this in both DB2 & Informix, so an even higher degree if interoperability is there for geospatial data.

Brent Wood

>>> Alex Vinogradovs <AVinogradovs(at)Clearpathnet(dot)com> 27/03/08 8:20 AM >>>
Shouldn't forget IBM got DB2. Could be they are
just seeking additional userbase in opensource
market space...

On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 12:12 -0700, Ron Mayer wrote:
> Clodoaldo wrote:
> > ...IBM is investing...What does it mean for Postgresql?
>
> One cool thing it means is that there are now *two*
> companies (thanks again Fujitsu) bigger than
> Oracle backing (to some extent) Postgres.
>
> And now one company bigger than Microsoft.
>
> Yeah, this doesn't affect the community much. But it
> sure comes in useful when your CFO calls you into a
> meeting and says "Hey, I just had lunch with
> our Microsoft rep and he asked why we're running
> some unsupported freeware database."
>
> Your CFO wouldn't want to run your company on a
> database - like Oracle 10i and MySQL and SQLServer - that
> are only backed by little (under $50B revenue) guys, would he?
>
> :-)
>
>