Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Oracle buys Innobase

As much as I respect Marc and Postgresql.org, I can't see Oracle hiring
him away as a "killer" threat to the community. People would set up
camp somewhere else, like Command Prompt. It would hurt things for a
while but the software is too important to too many to be killed by a
domain name or person.

On Oct 12, 2005, at 8:47 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:

> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Jan Wieck wrote:
>
>> On 10/12/2005 6:18 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Jussi Mikkola wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>> Well, if the PostgreSQL developers would be hired away from the
>>>> project with big money, would that not mean, that the project would
>>>> be a good path to earn a lot of money. So, new talented developers
>>>> could join the project and see that as a path to high salary jobs??
>>> Wow, what a twisted way to look at it ... not entirely inaccurate,
>>> but twisted :)
>>
>> Oracle could even develop an exceptional interest in keeping
>> PostgreSQL alive as it's "future DB engineer forge".
>
> Definitely ... get new developers involved over here to 'cut their
> teeth' and then pull them over there once they are through the
> teething period :) Or, encourage them to work here wihle still in
> University, learn DB internals ...
>
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