It's surely based on something else. If it's not, it's initial release
probably won't be worth anything.. I was surprised to see that they didn't
mention what it was based on however I'm sure we'll find out soon....
Redhat will probably wrap up PG or Interbase and sell it with a support
contract... Oh wait, they did that before with something -- what could that
be? *thinks* :-)
-Mitch
----- Original Message -----
From: "Adam Rossi" <adam.rossi@platinumsolutions.com>
To: <pgsql-general@postgresql.org>
Sent: Wednesday, June 20, 2001 3:39 PM
Subject: [GENERAL] Red Hat DB announced - why not PostgreSQL?
> It looks like Red Hat has announced an open source database called Red Hat
> Database:
>
> (via slashdot:)
>
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/20010619/tc/red_hat_to_play_in_oracle_s_aren
a_1.html
>
> Why is this not PostgreSQL? Why can't the Red Hat folks sell support to
> PostgreSQL, rather than developing another open source database and
> supporting that? Is it a conflict with GreatBridge? This looks like it
could
> have been a great opportunity for PostgreSQL....
>
> - Adam
>
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