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Sun, PostgreSQL, and Josh
Raven Zachary, May 4, 2006 @ 9:21 pm ETStephen Shankland at News.com posted a short article about Sun and PostgreSQL (”Next Solaris gets open-source database“). I was unaware that Josh Berkus went to work for Sun in March. Josh is a member of the PostgreSQL team (and coincidentally has done internal development work for The 451 Group). Josh had posted a blog entry about joining Sun in March, but it seemed to go unnoticed by me and many others.
The thing about open source is that those of us in the media and analyst community end up following individual talent quite a bit (a lot more than proprietary software) - almost like sports free agents.
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