"Dawid Kuroczko" <qnex42@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > 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. ;))) Buying out a company wouldn't affect dedicated people; they'd find a job somewhere else and keep right at it. Companies have disappeared on us before (Great Bridge, Pervasive) and the project is still here. I think one significant difference between us and MySQL is that that project probably *could* be killed by acquiring and shutting down one company. regards, tom lane
