Re: PostgreSQL derivatives

I didn't get a reply from Lonergan or anyone at Greenplum when I was
inquiring about Bizgres status a few months ago. The only thing company
spokespeople have wanted to talk about recently is their new customer
wins. That's legit, but the silence on other stuff related to open source
does suggest that they've pulled back from OS, gone down the Netezza road
rather than, say, the EnterpriseDB path.

Seth

On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Simon Riggs wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, 2008-06-12 at 00:05 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>>> Simon Riggs wrote:
>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> Greenplum sponsored my efforts to include Partitioning and Sort
>>>> improvements into 8.1 and 8.2 respectively, and have contributed at
>>>> least 3 other patches that the community has rejected (for whatever
>>>> reason). IMHO, Bizgres was really their way of showing that useful work
>>>> had been done, but I agree it is out of date now in many respects
>>>> because and only because it hasn't been updated since 8.1.
>>>
>>> The bottom line is that Greenplum is fading farther and farther from
>>> Postgres community involvement, as far as I can tell. :-(
>>
>> I agree with that assessment. I don't think it's a desirable or
>> unchangeable outcome, which is why I initially refused to attend the
>> recent EnterpriseDB-sponsored developer meeting unless Greenplum people
>> were also invited. I would like to see people encourage their
>> participation.
>
> I have been trying to get Luke Lonergan on the phone for a few months to
> try to encourage him, but have still not talked to him --- not sure what
> else I can do.
>
> I saw Luke listed on the PGCon committee but didn't see any Greenplum
> employees at the PGCon conference:
>
> http://www.pgcon.org/2008/committee.php
>
>

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