PostgreSQL Shows How Open Source Support Can Be Hard To Come By

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 3, 2007 8:40 PM EDT
InformationWeek; By Charles Babcock
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Companies may want a solid, for-profit vendor providing support when they embrace an open source project. One shortcut to checking on a support company's qualifications is to find how many of a project's core developers, the ones who commit code to the code base, are employed by the support firm. But the history of support for the PostgreSQL database offers a cautionary tale.

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gotta Iove when the article contradicts its own conclusion tuxchick 12 1,012 Feb 6, 2007 7:13 AM

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