Add Informix to the list of IBM's RDBMS products.. Also note that where Postgres has PistGIC as an OGC compliant geodata extension, IBM already supports this in both DB2 & Informix, so an even higher degree if interoperability is there for geospatial data. Brent Wood >>> Alex Vinogradovs <AVinogradovs@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 27/03/08 8:20 AM >>> Shouldn't forget IBM got DB2. Could be they are just seeking additional userbase in opensource market space... On Wed, 2008-03-26 at 12:12 -0700, Ron Mayer wrote: > Clodoaldo wrote: > > ...IBM is investing...What does it mean for Postgresql? > > One cool thing it means is that there are now *two* > companies (thanks again Fujitsu) bigger than > Oracle backing (to some extent) Postgres. > > And now one company bigger than Microsoft. > > Yeah, this doesn't affect the community much. But it > sure comes in useful when your CFO calls you into a > meeting and says "Hey, I just had lunch with > our Microsoft rep and he asked why we're running > some unsupported freeware database." > > Your CFO wouldn't want to run your company on a > database - like Oracle 10i and MySQL and SQLServer - that > are only backed by little (under $50B revenue) guys, would he? > > :-) > > -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
