Re: beta testing version

Vadim Mikheev <vmikheev@sectorbase.com>

From: "Vadim Mikheev" <vmikheev@sectorbase.com>
To: "Adam Haberlach" <adam@newsnipple.com>, "Don Baccus" <dhogaza@pacifier.com>
Cc: "Thomas Lockhart" <lockhart@alumni.caltech.edu>, "PostgreSQL Development" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2000-12-03T20:09:05Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> >I totaly missed your point here. How closing source of ERserver is related
> >to closing code of PostgreSQL DB server? Let me clear things:
> 
> (not based on WAL)
> 
> That's wasn't clear from the blurb.
> 
> Still, this notion that PG, Inc will start producing closed-source products
> poisons the well.  It strengthens FUD arguments of the "open source can't
> provide enterprise solutions" variety.  "Look, even PostgreSQL, Inc realizes
> that you must follow a close sourced model
> in order to provide tools for the corporate world."
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Did you miss Thomas' answer? Wasn't it clear that the order is to provide
income?

Vadim