Re: Re: Red Hat to support PostgreSQL

On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Lamar Owen wrote:

> On Wednesday 27 June 2001 15:35, Alex Knight wrote:
> > On 27 Jun 2001, Vivek Khera wrote:
> > > This is not the same in my book, since I don't
> > > care to run RHL in any kind of production environment.
>
> > Agreed over here.
>
> Disagreed over here, with 4+ years of experience 24x7 on RHL since RHL 4.1.
>
> And what about the SPECweb99 record just set by TUX on RHL 7.1 by an IBM
> server? :-)

This 4+ years 24/7 experience isn't on that server you said was for
internal purposes with low load you mentioned in a previous post, is it?

> All indications the reports have given is that the RedHat Database code is
> going to be open-source -- now, as to what license their modifications will
> be released under is anybody's guess -- but my educated guess would be the
> same old PostgreSQL license we know and love, with a minor addition to the
> copyright notice that 'Portions Copyright Red Hat Software, Inc.'  Thus the
> PostgreSQL Global Development Group would be free to incorporate such
> modifications if we so saw fit to do so.