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Re: IBM releases 500 patents

Elein Mustain <elein@tulip.norcov.com>

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From: Elein Mustain <elein@tulip.norcov.com>
To: Darcy Buskermolen <darcy@wavefire.com>
Cc: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-01-11T18:33:44Z
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They probaly released the informix database patents.
This is pertinent to us as several of them were interesting
implementations of things like the function manager.

--elein


On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:04:48AM -0800, Darcy Buskermolen wrote:
> IBM has just announced they are waving all rights and providing access to 500 
> patents.  In the list of 500 there are several that relate RDBMS and query 
> optimizations, it may be worth a look.
> 
> 
> http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en/2005/01/patents.html
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