Re: Companies involved in development

Ross J. Reedstrom wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 11:05:07AM -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> > I think we are going to see more company-funded developers working on
> > PostgreSQL. There are a handful now, but I can see lots more coming.
> > I am going to work on getting those funding companies more visibility.
> > We originally were concerned that such involvement may harm the
> > development process, but history has shown that it has only been a huge
> > benefit for the community.
>
> I agree, and it's also true that while the visibility of all you
> paid-to-hack types is high, the fact that you _are_ paid, and by wha
> companies, is not.
>
> Just recently, one of the GnuE developers has been running on about SapDB,
> and mentioned how they've got '100 paid developers at SAP' and seemed to
> think that since GreatBridge died, pgsql is back to all volunteer. The
> fact that GB wasn't the first nor the only nor the last corp. funding
> pgsql development was clearly missed, even among a relatively PG savvy
> user community (GnuE is the GNU/Enterprise middleware system, and is is
> pgsql as its primary developement backend http://www.gnuenterprise.org/ )

Yes, it is very invisible now.

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