Add Informix to the list of IBM's RDBMS products.. Also note that where Postgres has PistGIC as an OGC compliant
geodataextension, IBM already supports this in both DB2 & Informix, so an even higher degree if interoperability is
therefor geospatial data.
Brent Wood
>>> Alex Vinogradovs <AVinogradovs@Clearpathnet.com> 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?
>
> :-)
>
>
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