Re: IBM investing in EnterpriseDB

Brent Wood typed:

> I need to learn to type!!! try PostGIS (how did that become PistGIC? I have no idea)
>
> >>> "Brent Wood" <b(dot)wood(at)niwa(dot)co(dot)nz> 27/03/08 1:44 PM >>>
> 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.

Informix also offers a geodetic blade, a capability still missing in postGIS. It's a great database, but costs a fair penny to run in a web environment. Perhaps market penetration is getting saturated at that level and they (IBM) are looking to leverage open source. In addition to whatever they desire from EnterpriseDB for support of existing IBM wares ...

Greg Williamson
Senior DBA
DigitalGlobe

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