Re: PostgreSQL 8.1 vs. MySQL 5.0?

On Fri, 2005-10-07 at 13:32 -0500, Dan Armbrust wrote:
> >IBM have previously bought Informix (who bought Illustra, RedBrick,
> >Cloudscape) .... None of those take-
> >overs has led to a product actually surviving.
> >

> Thats not exactly true - Cloudscape was just given to Apache, and is now
> opensourced under the name "Derby"
> http://db.apache.org/derby/

Both the things we have said are true.

IBM bought Informix, who had bought Cloudscape. *Then* they gave it away
to Apache, since it is probably at about 4 years behind PostgreSQL at
current development rates on PostgreSQL.

Best Regards, Simon Riggs