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Actually MS has been relatively hands-off on Postgres, GitHub, Xamarin, etc. Of course they want to integrate it closely with Azure & their toolset. But I don't
by gautamdivgi 6y ago
Actually MS has been relatively hands-off on Postgres, GitHub, Xamarin, etc. Of course they want to integrate it closely with Azure & their toolset. But I don't see them compromising any functionality or making things specific to MS tools.
- edgyquant 6y agoDoes Microsoft have a stake in Postgres? I’m not aware of that if so (not that it would make me stop using it, anyway.)
- gautamdivgi 6y agoThey acquired Citus Data a while back
- anarazel 6y agoCitus Data paid for one full-time Postgres developer for a while (me, before I left), and a few employees contributed things on and off. That didn't really provide Citus with a meaningful amount of control over the community, hence Microsoft didn't have that either after the acquisition. Since then Microsoft has hired a few Postgres contributors (Jeff Davis, Thomas Munro, me, David Rowley, Melanie Plageman) to work on Postgres itself. While larger than before, that's still not anything close to a controlling fraction of Postgres developers. Microsoft has - I guess I can't really provide anything more than just my word on it - been giving us a lot of latitude what we work on. FWIW.