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PostgreSQL as a company: https://www.citusdata.com https://www.citusdata.com

• chipotle_coyote 9y ago
  There are several companies that are leveraging PostgreSQL for their own businesses, but that doesn't seem to me to be a rebuttal of the OP's assertion that PostgreSQL couldn't survive as a company itself. Citus Data is not "PostgreSQL as a company," it is "a company that exists because PostgreSQL already existed."
  • qaq 9y ago
    Well majority of key Postgres contributors work for 2ndQuadrant, EnterpriseDB, Crunchy Data, Citus etc. It basically means PostgreSQL is a distributed company and it would survive fine but being distributed it looks like it is able to innovate faster and is more resilient.
    • chipotle_coyote 9y ago
      | It basically means PostgreSQL is a distributed company I would argue that it means that different companies using PostgreSQL help fund PostgreSQL development. That's not the same thing as being a single company. It's a model which clearly works very well for PostgreSQL, but it doesn't really give us good data on whether the "single company doing closed source development" (e.g., Oracle) and "single company driving the bulk of open source development" (e.g., MongoDB) models would have worked as well for them.