I am curious as well. Although the headline says "Red Hat
Expands Open Source Portfolio", this product is apparently not
available for free download. In fact the press release doesn't
even say that source is included, though that might be an
oversight on the part of a marketing dept that Doesn't Get It.
I will be a bit surprised if this product succeeds. In my
experience, companies large enough to have an IT department
that insists on using supported software will want to use Oracle
for the "no-one ever got fired for recommending this" factor. And
those who get Open Source will be put off by the lack of a free
(unsupported) download. Though I'm sure it's quite legal;
Postgres is not GPL'd, and the UC Regents (who hold the
copyright) can approve this sort of thing if they want to.
I did find it amusing that the press release does not contain a
link to http://www.postgresql.org - guess they don't want people
to know you can get it for free over there! :)
