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What is this about?

What is this about?  
Lance Obermeyer
 Re: What is this about?  
Andrew Sullivan
 Re: What is this about?  
Joshua D. Drake
 Re: What is this about?  
David Fetter
From:Lance Obermeyer
Subject:What is this about?
Date:Tue, 11 Jan 2005 18:03:27 -0600
Snipped from Jonathan Schwartz's blog most recent blog entry (COO of sun).

Another really interesting and growing community is the open source database community. There are some really interesting (and rapidly growing) open source databases out there. Not many folks talk about them, curiously. The most interesting to me are Red Hat's database , known as Postgres, and MySQL . For the most part, those products lead the open source database world. What makes Red Hat's database so interesting is that two of Red Hat's biggest backers are database companies, and the continuing evolution of the Red Hat database implies as Red Hat grows, so will the ubiquity of a free alternative to Oracle and IBM. Maybe we should challenge Red Hat to a scalability contest on Postgres. Hm. Hey Matthew, what do you think? Let's find a neutral benchmark. I'll wear a red hat if we lose. You can wear a Solaris t-shirt :) We might even provide the hardware.


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From:Andrew Sullivan
Subject:Re: What is this about?
Date:Wed, 12 Jan 2005 09:33:41 -0500
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 06:03:27PM -0600, Lance Obermeyer wrote:
> Snipped from Jonathan Schwartz's blog most recent blog entry (COO
> of sun).

It's about Sun pretending as hard as they can that they're not in
deep trouble, is what.

A

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From:Joshua D. Drake
Subject:Re: What is this about?
Date:Tue, 11 Jan 2005 16:23:35 -0800
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Lance Obermeyer wrote:
> Snipped from Jonathan Schwartz's blog most recent blog entry (COO of sun).
>
> Another really interesting and growing community is the open source database community. There are some really interesting (and rapidly growing) open source databases out there. Not many folks talk about them, curiously. The most interesting to me are Red Hat's database , known as Postgres, and MySQL . For the most part, those products lead the open source database world. What makes Red Hat's database so interesting is that two of Red Hat's biggest backers are database companies, and the continuing evolution of the Red Hat database implies as Red Hat grows, so will the ubiquity of a free alternative to Oracle and IBM. Maybe we should challenge Red Hat to a scalability contest on Postgres. Hm. Hey Matthew, what do you think? Let's find a neutral benchmark. I'll wear a red hat if we lose. You can wear a Solaris t-shirt :) We might even provide the hardware.
>
>

It is the continued hate rhetoric from sun about redhat. I wouldn't
worry about it. If you are curious specifically about RedHat postgres
it is called RedHat Database and it is PostgreSQL based. However it is
kind of a bastard project.

J


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From:David Fetter
Subject:Re: What is this about?
Date:Tue, 11 Jan 2005 17:14:11 -0800
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 04:23:35PM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Lance Obermeyer wrote:
> >Snipped from Jonathan Schwartz's blog most recent blog entry (COO
> >of sun).
> >
> >Another really interesting and growing community is the open source
> >database community. There are some really interesting (and rapidly
> >growing) open source databases out there. Not many folks talk about
> >them, curiously. The most interesting to me are Red Hat's database
> >, known as Postgres,
> >and MySQL . For the most part, those products
> >lead the open source database world. What makes Red Hat's database
> >so interesting is that two of Red Hat's biggest backers are
> >database companies, and the continuing evolution of the Red Hat
> >database implies as Red Hat grows, so will the ubiquity of a free
> >alternative to Oracle and IBM. Maybe we should challenge Red Hat to
> >a scalability contest on Postgres. Hm. Hey Matthew, what do you
> >think? Let's find a neutral benchmark. I'll wear a red hat if we
> >lose. You can wear a Solaris t-shirt :) We might even provide the
> >hardware.
> >
>
> It is the continued hate rhetoric from sun about redhat. I wouldn't
> worry about it. If you are curious specifically about RedHat
> postgres it is called RedHat Database and it is PostgreSQL based.
> However it is kind of a bastard project.

I say, "bring it on." Of course, we'd have to be running on
Redhat/390 to make this fair. ;)

Cheers,
D
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