Re: Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL

Just a quicky
I think that RH's involvement will be good for all users of PostGres
whichever o/s is
run, even if you run it on Windows (!)

I'm optimistic and think that they will just muck in and help improve it
even further. MySQL has had some good marketing whereas PostGres has relied
on its technical abilities - this should make it more generally known to
the
wider world.
To me its good since there are other DB's out there they could have chosen
(MySQL has its limitations but could have been fixed, Firebird (forked
InterBase) )
I'm glad they thought PostGres was the best of the bunch and I would have
been dissapointed
if they had not.

Perhaps they will also help with non-core stuff like ODBC/ADO drivers,
admin utilities
(ala Oracle but perhaps with a few less bugs :) ), etc...

Lets give them some support and encouragement!

MC

Patrick Macdonald <patrickm(at)redhat(dot)com>@postgresql.org on 05/07/2001
16:31:46

Sent by: pgsql-general-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org

To: Vivek Khera <khera(at)kcilink(dot)com>
cc: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: [GENERAL] Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL

Vivek,

You can read the claim "Red Hat to support PostgreSQL" literally
or you can infer from the statement. Yes, Red Hat's Support
organization will support PostgreSQL on RH Linux. However, Red
Hat has also created a development group with full-time developers
to develop, advance and support the PostgreSQL product/project.

Cheers,
Patrick

Vivek Khera wrote:
>
> >>>>> "AB" == Alessio Bragadini <alessio(at)albourne(dot)com> writes:
>
> AB> Vivek Khera wrote:
> >> You assume I intend to run Linux at all... This is not the case.
>
> AB> I am sorry but I couldn't help... What do you find of your interest
in
> AB> this thread, then?
>
> The claim that "Red Hat to support PostgreSQL" appears to me a false
> statement. They are not supporting PostgreSQL, they are supporting
> their version of PostgreSQL on RHL. If you read the thread, you'd
> know that, since that was my original response to the original
> message.
>
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