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Sun and Greenplum Launch Open Source Data Warehouse Appliance

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Sun Microsystems, and Greenplum recently unveiled a data warehouse appliance built from open source software and general purpose systems. Powered by the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) and PostgreSQL, both the mature product of open source development, this breakthrough solution aims to deliver two orders of magnitude better price-performance over the competition.

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wjl ·
> Powered by the Solaris 10 Operating System (OS) and PostgreSQL, both the mature product of open source development

Excuse me - Solaris 10 wasn't "open source development" at all, even if Sun wants to make us believing that. AFAIK they only recently "opened", and their community is rather small compared to real F(L)OSS projects...

cheers, wjl
Teron ·
Well, the OpenSolaris community is still young, so...

But you're absolutely right that Solaris 10 wasn't developed under the free model (For the most part, that is. The newest 6/06 has begun to incorporate the first fruits of community development, but those are nothing major - yet)

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