Horton

Re: [HACKERS] Inprise/Borland releasing Interbase as Open source

Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>

View thread
From: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>
To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org>
Cc: Don Baccus <dhogaza@pacifier.com>, Stephen Birch <sbirch@ironmountainsystems.com>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgreSQL.org>
Date: 2000-01-04T19:42:19Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
> > They say they'll continue to sell it via their traditional channels
> > and sell support, too.   So it's not really clear what open-source
> > means in this context.  Open-source doesn't have to mean the disappearance
> > of license fees...
> > 
> > >> You guys have done a great job - but, frankly, IB is better.
> > >
> > >In what ways?  
> > 
> > Outer joins, for one. 
> 
> currently being worked on by Thomas, schedualed for, I believe, v7.1 this
> summer ...

I have spoken to him about getting some minimal OUTER join functionality
in 7.0.  Let's see what happens.

-- 
  Bruce Momjian                        |  http://www.op.net/~candle
  maillist@candle.pha.pa.us            |  (610) 853-3000
  +  If your life is a hard drive,     |  830 Blythe Avenue
  +  Christ can be your backup.        |  Drexel Hill, Pennsylvania 19026