Re: [HACKERS] Inprise/Borland releasing Interbase as Open source

I wish this announcement had been made a few months ago!! We have several
developers porting our server software to PostgreSQL. Although we like
PostgreSQL, we have run into a number of memory leaks and bugs - something
we never encountered with Interbase.

Now Interbase is going open source, we will discontinue the PostgreSQL
development effort. Interbase is such a well written DBMS, it doesn't make
sense to continue.

You guys have done a great job - but, frankly, IB is better.

Steve

Bruce Momjian wrote:

> FYI:
>
> SCOTTS VALLEY, Calif., Jan. 3 /PRNewswire/ -- Inprise Corporation
> (Nasdaq: INPR) today announced that it is jumping to the forefront of
> the Linux database market by open-sourcing the beta version of
> InterBase 6, the new version of its SQL database. InterBase will be
> released in open-source form for multiple platforms, including Linux,
> Windows NT, and Solaris.
>
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