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IBM Invests In MySQL/Oracle Competitor (internetnews.com)
12 points by muriithi on March 26, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


It's good to see Postgres get some financial loving. It's my preferred open-source DB. I like the features, performance, and cleanliness when compared to MySQL.

I think the name change from "EnterpriseDB Postgres" to "Postgres Plus" and "Postgres Plus Advanced Server" is a great idea. It gets the name "Postgres" in a more prominent position and conveys the idea of their commercial product as a step up from the freely available one.



A RDBMS that tries to take being relational seriously, instead of trying to be a fast filesystem with an SQL-like command syntax? Really? Gosh.


Let's not forget about IBM's strategic hire of Damien Katz, the creator of CouchDB.




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