Jonah H. Harris wrote: > The title of the document, "How Companies Can Effectively Contribute > To Open Source Communities" doesn't seem to fit the content. I would > consider something more along the lines of, "Enterprise Open Source: > Effectively Contributing Commercial Support to Open Source > Communities", or, "What to Expect when Contributing to Open Source > Projects". More specifically, I'd restrict the document to PostgreSQL > because it really doesn't represent the majority of open source > software communities which tend to be commercially-driven.
I agree that there are a lot of open source "communities" which are setup in the other way you describe, the non-PostgreSQL way. However I wouldn't go as far as saying that the 99% of the OSS projects are. Linux (the kernel), Gnome, KDE are counterexamples -- no single company could ever dream of improving their products at the rate those projects do. I think the element in common in all these projects is that there are multiple companies cooperating to see them progress; cooperating with each other, and with individual developers. As the project matures, more developers join, the companies hires some of them and let them work on the project, and more companies join. If a single company leaves it may hinder development but it's not the doom of the project. This is in stark contrast with one-manned projects or single-company projects. -- Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/ The PostgreSQL Company - Command Prompt, Inc. ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 9: In versions below 8.0, the planner will ignore your desire to choose an index scan if your joining column's datatypes do not match
