Re: [HACKERS] IBM releases 500 patents

2005-01-16 Thread Neil Conway
On Tue, 2005-01-11 at 08:04 -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. FYI, IBM has applied for a patent on A

Re: [HACKERS] IBM releases 500 patents

2005-01-14 Thread Jim C. Nasby
On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:28:52AM -0600, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 10:33:44 -0800, > Elein Mustain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > They probaly released the informix database patents. > > This is pertinent to us as several of them were interesting > > implementations of thi

Re: [HACKERS] IBM releases 500 patents

2005-01-14 Thread Calvin Sun
gsql-hackers@postgresql.org Subject: Re: [HACKERS] IBM releases 500 patents On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 10:33:44 -0800, Elein Mustain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They probaly released the informix database patents. > This is pertinent to us as several of them were interesting > implem

Re: [HACKERS] IBM releases 500 patents

2005-01-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 10:33:44 -0800, Elein Mustain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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. >From what I read of this, the way they rel

Re: [HACKERS] IBM releases 500 patents

2005-01-13 Thread Elein Mustain
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

Re: [HACKERS] IBM releases 500 patents

2005-01-11 Thread Bruce Momjian
Darcy Buskermolen wrote: > On January 11, 2005 08:34 am, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:13:01AM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > > Darcy Buskermolen wrote: > > > >IBM has just announced they are waving all rights and providing access > > > > to 500 patents. In the list of 50

Re: [HACKERS] IBM releases 500 patents

2005-01-11 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On January 11, 2005 08:34 am, Alvaro Herrera wrote: > On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:13:01AM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > > 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 RDB

Re: [HACKERS] IBM releases 500 patents

2005-01-11 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On January 11, 2005 08:32 am, Darcy Buskermolen wrote: > On January 11, 2005 08:13 am, you wrote: > > 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 op

Re: [HACKERS] IBM releases 500 patents

2005-01-11 Thread Alvaro Herrera
On Tue, Jan 11, 2005 at 08:13:01AM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote: > 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. >

Re: [HACKERS] IBM releases 500 patents

2005-01-11 Thread Darcy Buskermolen
On January 11, 2005 08:13 am, you wrote: > 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.co

Re: [HACKERS] IBM releases 500 patents

2005-01-11 Thread Joshua D. Drake
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 Except in the event of a