Thread: Open source databases article

Open source databases article

From
Christopher Kings-Lynne
Date:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/04/open_source_databases_strategy/

Mentions PostgreSQL, it's about licensing and about somehow how open
source databases play into the hands of the big DBs or something :P

Chris

Re: Open source databases article

From
Thomas Hallgren
Date:
Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/04/open_source_databases_strategy/
>
> Mentions PostgreSQL, it's about licensing and about somehow how open
> source databases play into the hands of the big DBs or something :P
>
There's a link to "Ingres and Open Source - a success story" at the
bottom. In it, you find "Datallegro evaluated Ingres and rapidly made
the decision to jump ship from PostgreSQL to Ingres". Anyone know how
Datallegro "rapidly" came to that conclusion?

Regards,
Thomas Hallgren


Re: Open source databases article

From
Josh Berkus
Date:
Thomas,

> There's a link to "Ingres and Open Source - a success story" at the
> bottom. In it, you find "Datallegro evaluated Ingres and rapidly made
> the decision to jump ship from PostgreSQL to Ingres". Anyone know how
> Datallegro "rapidly" came to that conclusion?

Well, there is the fact that Datallegro was a CA reseller ...

--
Josh Berkus
Aglio Database Solutions
San Francisco

Re: Open source databases article

From
shingav
Date:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/04/04/open_source_databases_strategy/

> Mentions PostgreSQL, it's about licensing and about somehow how open
> source databases play into the hands of the big DBs or something :P

and got ./ ed

http://tinyurl.com/5mhv4

Shinga