Re: [HACKERS] Inprise/Borland releasing Interbase as Open source - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: [HACKERS] Inprise/Borland releasing Interbase as Open source
Date
Msg-id 200001042342.SAA00412@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] Inprise/Borland releasing Interbase as Open source  (Stephen Birch <sbirch@ironmountainsystems.com>)
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> Since writing the above, I was called to attend a telecon with my manager and
> the ITS managers from our two biggest customers to discuss exactly this issue.
> The decision has been made to deploy the PostgreSQL based server.  We all
> agreed that whatever happens to Interbase, the personal commitment by the
> PostgreSQL folks is not likely to dry up.  Hence the code will continue to
> improve over time.  I believe that they clearly understand how important
> reliability is to a database server.

All's well that end's well...

I have been very impressed over the three years of work on PostgreSQL
that everything is done is such a civilized matter.  I mention that in
my book and in the development history.

Not sure how we have achieved this, but we certainly have.

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