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. > ph: 250.717.0200 > fx: 250.763.1759 > http://www.wavefire.com > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 5: Have you checked our extensive FAQ? > > http://www.postgresql.org/docs/faqs/FAQ.html ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly