On 12/19/06, Joshua D. Drake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Ingres is opensource again yes. http://www.ingres.com/ .
Yep.
> I'm not aware of too many more. Like I said, if you want to establish > this as the typical case, name ten examples.
We could also mention all the Ingres-based offshoots that were commercial. Let me think of some other examples... but there may not be that many seeing as there aren't really that many PostgreSQL-like communities. I guess I could mention more if I had a clear understanding of what we mean when we say, "community". /me will think of some forked projects that are successful, I'm sure there's quite a few out there. Many university projects which are fairly community-based go commercial and the community fades away. Sometimes a community will be created around once open source, gone commercial, back to open source projects like *BSD, POSTGRES, and INGRES. In my opinion, should a company base it's product on open source, their first responsibility as a business should be to plan a continuity strategy around near-catastrophic changes to the project their basing themselves on. Lack of doing so would most certainly make the case that they would fail if the community failed... but then again, that's just poor business planning at fault and has nothing to do with the open source community. -- Jonah H. Harris, Software Architect | phone: 732.331.1324 EnterpriseDB Corporation | fax: 732.331.1301 33 Wood Ave S, 3rd Floor | [EMAIL PROTECTED] Iselin, New Jersey 08830 | http://www.enterprisedb.com/ ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 5: don't forget to increase your free space map settings
