Re: [GENERAL] Oracle buys Innobase

Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>

From: Andreas Pflug <pgadmin@pse-consulting.de>
To: Jan Wieck <JanWieck@Yahoo.com>
Cc: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@postgresql.org>, PostgreSQL advocacy <pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org>
Date: 2005-10-13T08:52:58Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Jan Wieck wrote:
> On 10/12/2005 6:18 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Jussi Mikkola wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Well, if the PostgreSQL developers would be hired away from the 
>>> project with big money, would that not mean, that the project would 
>>> be a good path to earn a lot of money. So, new talented developers 
>>> could join the project and see that as a path to high salary jobs??
>>
>>
>> Wow, what a twisted way to look at it ... not entirely inaccurate, but 
>> twisted :)
> 
> 
> Oracle could even develop an exceptional interest in keeping PostgreSQL 
> alive as it's "future DB engineer forge".

Looks like a good reason why Oracle should sponsor PostgreSQL heavily :-)

Regards,
Andreas