From: | teg(at)redhat(dot)com (Trond Eivind =?iso-8859-1?q?Glomsr=F8d?=) |
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To: | "Thalis A(dot) Kalfigopoulos" <thalis(at)cs(dot)pitt(dot)edu> |
Cc: | Bruce Momjian <pgman(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us>, "Brent R(dot) Matzelle" <bmatzelle(at)yahoo(dot)com>, PostgreSQL-general <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL |
Date: | 2001-06-25 18:56:07 |
Message-ID: | xuylmmggzi0.fsf@halden.devel.redhat.com |
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"Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos" <thalis(at)cs(dot)pitt(dot)edu> writes:
> On 25 Jun 2001, Trond Eivind Glomsrød wrote:
>
> > "Thalis A. Kalfigopoulos" <thalis(at)cs(dot)pitt(dot)edu> writes:
> >
> > > Always a first time for everything bad. Anyway, not wanting to be the
> > > pessimist of the bunch, I'll hold my horses and hope that none of my
> > > "fears" turns into reality. The issue is that none of the other open
> > > source projects RH supported was anything major they could make real
> > > money out of, at least not compared to what they can make out of the
> > > DB arena.
> >
> > Uh? The database project is small FTTB (moneywise) compared to other
> > things like the kernel, gcc and glibc which are core parts of our base
> > product.
>
> But kernel/gcc/glibc don't comprise a market by themselves.
But you called them "not major" and something we couldn't make money
from. We make quite a bit of money on gcc, to give one example -
through contracts to add features, support for architectures, support
etc. We are the number one company in that area (remember, Cygnus is
now part of Red Hat).
> They are just components of the OS market as a whole (if there is any such
> thing left anyway).
But the core on which the rest is built.
--
Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.
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