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Wouldn't other hardware vendors be more interested in supporting PostgreSQL now? Before the acquisition, if you bought a big HP database server, HP had no reas
by sethg 18y ago
Wouldn't other hardware vendors be more interested in supporting PostgreSQL now? Before the acquisition, if you bought a big HP database server, HP had no reason to care which database software you ran on it. Now, HP would prefer that you not be directing your software-purchase money to one of HP's competitors.
- bensummers 18y agoAmusingly, before they bought MySQL, Sun were the biggest PostgreSQL supporters. They still employ the key contributors!
- neilc 18y agoSun employes one member of the core team (Peter Eisentraut) and some other people who contribute patches, but that's it. http://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/ http://www.postgresql.org/community/contributors/
- neilc 18y agoAnd actually, I forgot that Peter E. left Sun a few weeks ago anyway: http://petereisentraut.blogspot.com/2009/03/sun-set-part-2.html http://petereisentraut.blogspot.com/2009/03/sun-set-part-2.h...
- ja27 18y agoI'm thinking Oracle/Sun will eventually end up in HP's hands.
- falsestprophet 18y agoWhy? Oracle has a larger market capitalization than HP: ~90 billion vs. 84.
- briansmith 18y agoHow will that work? Oracle's market cap is higher than HP's.
- ja27 18y agoBecause Oracle and HP are already tight partners and analysts refer to them as essentially one entity against IBM. Plenty of people expect the Sun hardware line to die or get sold to HP, while Oracle keeps the software line. http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/6606-0-0-225-121.html http://h71028.www7.hp.com/enterprise/cache/6606-0-0-225-121.... http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2903 http://blogs.zdnet.com/Gardner/?p=2903
- briansmith 18y agoNow that it has aqcuired Sun, it can make those Exadata appliances itself, without HP. That's basically what Oracle said they were going to do today.