| From: | Elein Mustain <elein(at)tulip(dot)norcov(dot)com> |
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| To: | Darcy Buskermolen <darcy(at)wavefire(dot)com> |
| Cc: | pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: IBM releases 500 patents |
| Date: | 2005-01-11 18:33:44 |
| Message-ID: | 20050111103344.A24348@tulip.norcov.com |
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They probaly released the informix database patents.
This is pertinent to us as several of them were interesting
implementations of things like the function manager.
--elein
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:04:48AM -0800, Darcy Buskermolen wrote:
> IBM has just announced they are waving all rights and providing access to 500
> patents. In the list of 500 there are several that relate RDBMS and query
> optimizations, it may be worth a look.
>
>
> http://www.ibm.com/news/us/en/2005/01/patents.html
> --
> Darcy Buskermolen
> Wavefire Technologies Corp.
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