Re: PostgreSQL derivatives

"Truviso Contributes PostgreSQL Enhancements to Open Source Community":
http://truviso.com/news/080418.html

Bizgres is dormant and has not had a release post the 0.9 release over 2
years ago. With the inclusion of open-source GridSQL in EnterpriseDB's
open-source Postgres Plus distribution, there is no good reason for anyone
to use Bizgres any more. Greenplum should acknowledge these points and,
unless they're going to update Bizgres, they should bury it.

By the way, I've just learned that Astor's nCluster is based on PostgreSQL
even though there's no mention of that (that I saw) on their Web site,
http://www.asterdata.com/. I'm trying to get details.

Seth

On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, Joshua D. Drake wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 2008-06-05 at 17:08 -0400, Robert Treat wrote:
>> On Thursday 05 June 2008 11:24:44 Seth Grimes wrote:
>
>> AFAIK Truvisio does not distribute any open source products. And actually, I
>> don't know of any contributions they have made directly to the community.
>> They hired command prompt to do some work, and that was contributed back, but
>> not sure on the specifics (i'd guess contributing back might have been part
>> of the deal)... the people I know who work there are swell guys though! :-)
>
> Yes part of the deal was that the work we would do for them would be
> contributed back to the community. They are looking at other such
> contributions as well.
>
>>
>> Greenplum does distribute an open source product, specifically the bizgres
>> database. It's not widely used, but it is still available, so they should
>> probably be credited as such.
>
> Is it still maintained?
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
>
>

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