Forum OpenACS Q&A: Great Bridge (the Postgresql company) is dead

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1: Great Bridge (the Postgresql company) is dead
Posted by David Cohen on 09/06/01 11:18 PM
The company behind Postgresql, the open-source database used by the OpenACS, is kaput.

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-7079518.html?tag=mn_hd

See also http://www.greatbridge.com

While, of course, the database is open-source, and so will remain available with or without Great Bridge, I have to assume that there will be consequences. If anyone has some insight into how this will change things, please post here.

P.S. While http://www.postgresql.org just has a list of mirror sites, I tried one of the Canadian ones (http://www.ca.postgresql.org) and it looked OK, except for some documentation links that are bad. I expect that any links pointing to something on www.postgresql.org itself may not work.

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2: Response to Great Bridge (the Postgresql company) is dead (response to 1)
Posted by Ben Adida on 09/06/01 11:20 PM
Please check existing threads before posting news:

the other thread

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3: Response to Great Bridge (the Postgresql company) is dead (response to 1)
Posted by David Cohen on 09/06/01 11:23 PM
Oops--I didn't see someone else posted this a little earlier (though I did check, I just didn't see it--honest). The thread about this topic, with commments from Don Baccus, Ben Adida and more is here
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4: Response to Great Bridge (the Postgresql company) is dead (response to 1)
Posted by Roberto Mello on 09/07/01 01:27 AM
"The company behind Postgresql" is a misleading and untruthful (I hope this word actually exists) statement. GreatBridge was not _THE_ company behind PostgreSQL. It was _one_ of the companies. pgsql inc. is here, and of course, Red Hat.

The project had a (fast-paced) life of its own much before GreatBridge came along, and it will continue so. We're all sad to see GreatBridge go, but as Ben said, the economy is just hard on start-ups right now.