Re: Companies involved in development - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

I will add something about the BSD license to the advocacy web page I am
trying to put together.  My list is:
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Hans-J�rgen Sch�nig wrote:
> I think it would be a huge benefit for the community to have some more 
> company-funding. This would lead to the implementation of some features 
> people need urgently (replication in the core and so forth). On the 
> other hand a better product makes even more developers work for 
> PostgreSQL. We were thinking of funding the project as well and seems to 
> be a good way of improving the product we make our living of. We have 
> also tried to get some government funding we could invest into 
> PostgreSQL but unfornately all we could get was EUR 10k which is some 
> kind of ridiculous. We should have invested much more but it is just not 
> possible at this point so we dropped the idea.
> For a company PostgreSQL definitely is an interesting area to invest 
> because it has proven to be a good product and there are just minor 
> things (sync. replication - eg. Postgres-R) missing to make it a real 
> enterprise database. The support of the community of more than just 
> optimal and it is an interesting subject.
> Talking about practical experience: Our customers love PostgreSQL. The 
> only thing they miss is 24x7 availability due to a lack of hot-failover 
> and replication. A way to tweak the optimizer better (some have SQL 
> statements being 2 pages long).
> We have done quite a lot of Oracle up to now but in many respects 
> PostgreSQL seems to be the better product but in the case of 
> availability we fail. The database never crashes but it is just to hard 
> to make a cluster out of it - we have to do it on an application level 
> and too many people worry about conistency if one node fails.
> 
> Also: It would be interesting to have a special section on the website 
> where people can post that they need money to implement something really 
> useful. I guess there'd be a lot of people who'd pay for replication or 
> things like that if they knew more.
> By the way; many people seem to think that PostgreSQL is GPL license. I 
> know it is easy to find out what it means and that it is now that way 
> but we should explain what BSD license REALLY means in just a few words. 
> This may sound ridiculous but people just don't look for information.
> 
> All in all I think that there are ways to find people contributing 
> financially to the project.
> 
>     Regards,
>         Hans-J?rgen Sch?nig
> 
> 
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
> 
> >I think we are going to see more company-funded developers working on
> >PostgreSQL.  There are a handful now, but I can see lots more coming.
> >I am going to work on getting those funding companies more visibility. 
> >We originally were concerned that such involvement may harm the
> >development process, but history has shown that it has only been a huge
> >benefit for the community.
> >  
> >
> 
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