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Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group

Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>

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From: Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>
To: Vince Vielhaber <vev@michvhf.com>
Cc: Brian Knox <brian@mail.pantalaimon.net>, Philip Warner <pjw@rhyme.com.au>, Christopher Kings-Lynne <chriskl@familyhealth.com.au>, Peter Eisentraut <peter_e@gmx.net>, "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, Dave Page <dpage@vale-housing.co.uk>, Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2002-12-08T03:11:18Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> What too many people fail to realize is that in a commercial environment
> many companies want another company to point the finger at in case of
> disaster.  Sybase failed, or HP failed, or IBM failed, or Microsoft
> failed.  They feel they can do something about that.  If they lose a
> few million they have someone they can go after, who are they going to
> go after if PostgreSQL fails them?  Marc?  Bruce?

This is when you start to shout that RedHat offers commercial support,
licencing, etc. INCLUDING a free, non-restrictive source licence to the
core components of RHDB.

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Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>

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