Re: [GENERAL] PostgresSQL vs Ingress

2008-01-06 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 09:33 -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 01:22:31PM -, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > > or a scapegoat. Please don't perpetuate this urban myth. No companies are > > suing Oracle and Microsoft because of their products, and companies have > > no expec

Re: [GENERAL] PostgresSQL vs Ingress

2007-12-02 Thread Harvey, Allan AC
Ow Mun Henq wrote:- > Ingress is also an open source RDBM (and DataWarehouseing) and I'm > wondering if anyone here has anything to say about it. They also offer > community editions but I've not gone to see how much it differs/offers > compared to PG. > > I've tried to DL the community edition,

Re: [GENERAL] PostgresSQL vs Ingress

2007-12-02 Thread Paul Boddie
On 30 Nov, 16:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lane) wrote: > [Quoting a re-telling of the myth of products living happily ever after under the control of big companies] > Anyone who thinks that's a reason to feel good is living on some other > planet than I do. Consider that if the company *does* dec

Re: [GENERAL] PostgresSQL vs Ingress

2007-11-30 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:22:31 - "Greg Sabino Mullane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --> It provides a feel-good feeling knowing that a big company, > > after having paid XXX amount on it, the solution will not die in > > X number of years leaving the customer stranded. > > That's a valid conc

Re: [GENERAL] PostgresSQL vs Ingress

2007-11-30 Thread Tom Lane
Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Being Corporate owned is not a bad thing(tm) for they present themselves > with these differences. > ... > --> It provides a feel-good feeling knowing that a big company, after > having paid XXX amount on it, the solution will not die in X number of > years

Re: [GENERAL] PostgresSQL vs Ingress

2007-11-30 Thread Ivan Sergio Borgonovo
On Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:22:31 - "Greg Sabino Mullane" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --> It provides a feel-good feeling knowing that a big company, > > after having paid XXX amount on it, the solution will not die in > > X number of years leaving the customer stranded. > > That's a valid conc

Re: [GENERAL] PostgresSQL vs Ingress

2007-11-30 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 01:25:46PM +, Peter Childs wrote: > > In short the current Ingres is related to Postgresql like Xorg is related to > XFree86 or Ubuntu to Debian but much much much older. Not quite, according to the programmers who worked on Postgres at UC Berkeley. While X.org and Ub

Re: [GENERAL] PostgresSQL vs Ingress

2007-11-30 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Nov 30, 2007 at 01:22:31PM -, Greg Sabino Mullane wrote: > or a scapegoat. Please don't perpetuate this urban myth. No companies are > suing Oracle and Microsoft because of their products, and companies have > no expectation of doing so. It might be nice if they did, and some theorize

Re: [GENERAL] PostgresSQL vs Ingress

2007-11-30 Thread Thomas Kellerer
Peter Childs, 30.11.2007 14:25: I found ingres website but no mention of a database system so I though they were something else that had taken on the name... http://www.ingres.com/downloads/prod-comm-download.php Found this using Google ;) Thomas ---(end of broad

Re: [GENERAL] PostgresSQL vs Ingress

2007-11-30 Thread Peter Childs
On 30/11/2007, Alexander Staubo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 11/30/07, Peter Childs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now We used somthing called Ingres at University (I graduated in 2000) > but > > I've not heard anything about it since and google does not return > anything. > > So we might be

Re: [GENERAL] PostgresSQL vs Ingress

2007-11-30 Thread Greg Sabino Mullane
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 > --> It provides a feel-good feeling knowing that a big company, after > having paid XXX amount on it, the solution will not die in X number of > years leaving the customer stranded. That's a valid concern. Not sure having a roadmap really cor

Re: [GENERAL] PostgresSQL vs Ingress

2007-11-30 Thread Alexander Staubo
On 11/30/07, Peter Childs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now We used somthing called Ingres at University (I graduated in 2000) but > I've not heard anything about it since and google does not return anything. > So we might be talking about different products? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ingres A

Re: [GENERAL] PostgresSQL vs Ingress

2007-11-30 Thread Peter Childs
On 30/11/2007, Ow Mun Heng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was browsing the net yesterday after reading through the thread on PG > vs Informix and I was curious as to Ingress. > > Ingress is also an open source RDBM (and DataWarehouseing) and I'm > wondering if anyone here has anything to say abou

Re: [GENERAL] PostgresSQL vs Ingress

2007-11-29 Thread Ow Mun Heng
On Fri, 2007-11-30 at 01:59 -0500, Robert Treat wrote: > On Thursday 29 November 2007 21:12, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > Ingress is also an open source RDBM (and DataWarehouseing) and I'm > > wondering if anyone here has anything to say about it. They also offer > > community editions but I've not gon

Re: [GENERAL] PostgresSQL vs Ingress

2007-11-29 Thread Robert Treat
On Thursday 29 November 2007 21:12, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > I was browsing the net yesterday after reading through the thread on PG > vs Informix and I was curious as to Ingress. > > Ingress is also an open source RDBM (and DataWarehouseing) and I'm > wondering if anyone here has anything to say about

[GENERAL] PostgresSQL vs Ingress

2007-11-29 Thread Ow Mun Heng
I was browsing the net yesterday after reading through the thread on PG vs Informix and I was curious as to Ingress. Ingress is also an open source RDBM (and DataWarehouseing) and I'm wondering if anyone here has anything to say about it. They also offer community editions but I've not gone to see