Re: [GENERAL] Sun supporting PostgreSQL

2005-11-19 Thread Marc G. Fournier
On Sat, 19 Nov 2005, Ezra Taylor wrote: Hello all: Just to let you all know, Sun is in trouble. Linux is taking alot of business away from Sun. Can we trust Sun to do the right thing. Also, if Sun adds any code to PG, will it continue to be opensource product. As you can tell,

Re: [GENERAL] Sun supporting PostgreSQL

2005-11-19 Thread Ezra Taylor
Thanks Martijn. On 11/19/05, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 11:07:55AM -0500, Ezra Taylor wrote: > > Hello all: > >Just to let you all know, Sun is in trouble. Linux is > > taking alot of business away from Sun. Can we trust Sun to do the > > right thing

Re: [GENERAL] Sun supporting PostgreSQL

2005-11-19 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout
On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 11:07:55AM -0500, Ezra Taylor wrote: > Hello all: >Just to let you all know, Sun is in trouble. Linux is > taking alot of business away from Sun. Can we trust Sun to do the > right thing. Also, if Sun adds any code to PG, will it continue to be > opensourc

Re: [GENERAL] Sun supporting PostgreSQL

2005-11-19 Thread Ezra Taylor
Hello all: Just to let you all know, Sun is in trouble. Linux is taking alot of business away from Sun. Can we trust Sun to do the right thing. Also, if Sun adds any code to PG, will it continue to be opensource product. As you can tell, I don't trust these big IT companies, but

Re: [GENERAL] Sun supporting PostgreSQL

2005-11-18 Thread Scott Ribe
>> sponsorship of community members and projects; This would be good. But frankly, if they never sponsor nor contribute a single line of code, the fact that *Sun* is now offering paid support for Postgres is a *huge* boost. From now on, when a company wants to know whether there are major firms su

Re: [GENERAL] Sun supporting PostgreSQL

2005-11-18 Thread Neil Conway
On Fri, 2005-11-18 at 11:00 +0100, Wolfgang Keller wrote: > Given the focus of Sun on fault-tolerance etc., one of THE projects > that they should definitely sponsor is > http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgreplication/projdisplay.php AFAIK pgreplication is no longer active. However, the Slony

Re: [GENERAL] Sun supporting PostgreSQL

2005-11-18 Thread Wolfgang Keller
Sun's support for PostgreSQL will involve: *snip* sponsorship of community members and projects; Given the focus of Sun on fault-tolerance etc., one of THE projects that they should definitely sponsor is http://gborg.postgresql.org/project/pgreplication/projdisplay.php Sincerely, Wolfga