From: | The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> |
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To: | dave madden <dhm(at)paradigm(dot)webvision(dot)com> |
Cc: | maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us, boersenspiel(at)vocalweb(dot)de, pgsql-general(at)postgreSQL(dot)org |
Subject: | Re: [GENERAL] Postgres vs commercial products |
Date: | 1998-07-29 19:05:08 |
Message-ID: | Pine.BSF.3.96.980729150308.11716S-100000@hub.org |
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On Wed, 29 Jul 1998, dave madden wrote:
> =>From: Bruce Momjian <maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>
> =>Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1998 01:01:05 -0400 (EDT)
> =>...
> =>> This would be major leap for PostgreSQL if someone financed two
> =>> months of Vadim for example ...
> =>
> =>That would be great. I feel like I am standing still when Vadim is
> =>working.
>
> Hi. We're currently using Oracle for our Web stuff, but their
> licensing program is byzantine, and the price (if you can figure it
> out) starts at outrageous and goes up. We'd be very interested in
> seeing PostgreSQL become a viable alternative for our applications,
> and would be willing to put up some money for it.
>
> What's the best way to set something like this up? There's a few
> features we'd need to be assured of getting for our investment, but
> other than that, fronting money for free software development is not a
> problem (depending on the amount, of course :-)
By the end of this weekend, I will have an announcement up on the
WWW and here concerning this...I want to build the pages and get the -core
group to review and comment on it before I elaborate further in public...
Patience :)
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