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