Re: Re: erServer beta

The short and simple of it is that what has currently been developed is in
/contrib ... we will not release anything into the Open Source until we
*at least* have a running release and package, which is when we put
erserver into /contrib ...

Our policy on Open Source vs Closed Source is it depends on who funded it
... if we covered the costs internally, it goes Open Source ... if a
client paid us to do it for them, its Closed Source, as paying us to do
something for them is meant to give them a competitive advantage, and Open
Sourcing it would detract from that ...

On Sun, 15 Apr 2001, Robert L Mathews wrote:

> At 4/15/01 3:20 PM, The Hermit Hacker <scrappy(at)hub(dot)org> wrote:
>
> >everything that is currently available is actually in contrib right now
> >... Thomas is currently working on tools for it, but nothing ready for
> >even beta testing yet ..
>
> Hmmm? At http://www.erserver.com/, there's a page that starts off:
>
> "eRServer was released for Beta on December 24, 2000."
>
> And then it has links to download eRServer tools from the pgsql.com site.
>
> Is this different from what's in the contrib directory? I've never quite
> been able to get straight in my head whether eRServer is an Open Source
> project, or whether it's initially closed source and planned to be
> released as Open Source later, or what; there was lots of confusing talk
> about it a while back (confused me, anyway).
>
> Can someone in the know give us a definite explanation of what kind of
> project eRServer is, how it's going to be developed, what its current
> state is, etc.? I really could use replication, but it doesn't seem clear
> whether the eRServer stuff is going be further developed in a way that I
> could use (what's there is somewhat unpolished so far, although the
> initial effort is appreciated).
>
> --
> Robert L Mathews, Tiger Technologies
>
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