Dawid Kuroczko wrote: > On 1/30/07, Ron Mayer <rm_pg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >> Who would they target anyways? > > >> There's no one company.... > > > > > > They could buy out CommandPrompt and EnterpriseDB... > > > > > > The buyouts wouldn't *kill* pg, but they would wound it mightily. > > > > I don't think so. High-profile and high priced buyouts > > of CommandPrompt and EnterpriseDB would be great for > > postgresql. > > > > It would be a strong motivation for entrepreneurs to start > > postgresql companies, developers to build postgresql expertise, > > VCs to invest in postgresql companies. And guys like Pervasive > > would be kicking themselves for not keeping sticking with it. > > One would think that with the acquisiton of Berkeley DB and InnoDB > one should see a flourish of database engine startups, but I seem > to have missed that. > > My point is, its not about throwing money at a problem. PostgreSQL > seems to be having right people at the right place and benefits from > it. They do the hard work, they do it well, hence 8.0, 8.1, 8.2 and > upcoming 8.3 release. If you buy these people out, it will take time > to find and teach new ones. Writing RDBMS is not dusting crops, > ya know. ;))) Having contributors bought out was always one of our three risks, the other two being patent and trademark attacks. Not sure what we can really do about them. -- Bruce Momjian bruce@xxxxxxxxxx EnterpriseDB http://www.enterprisedb.com + If your life is a hard drive, Christ can be your backup. +
