Re: IBM releases 500 patents - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Elein Mustain
Subject Re: IBM releases 500 patents
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Msg-id 20050111103344.A24348@tulip.norcov.com
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In response to IBM releases 500 patents  (Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@wavefire.com>)
Responses Re: IBM releases 500 patents  (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>)
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They probaly released the informix database patents.
This is pertinent to us as several of them were interesting
implementations of things like the function manager.

--elein


On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:04:48AM -0800, Darcy Buskermolen wrote:
> IBM has just announced they are waving all rights and providing access to 500 
> patents.  In the list of 500 there are several that relate RDBMS and query 
> optimizations, it may be worth a look.
> 
> 
> http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en/2005/01/patents.html
> -- 
> Darcy Buskermolen
> Wavefire Technologies Corp.
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