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Sun Announces Support for PostgreSQL

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the open-for-business dept.

jadavis writes "Sun announces 24x7 support for PostgreSQL on Solaris 10. From the article: 'Today Sun announced that it will be integrating the Postgres open source data base into the Solaris 10 OS and providing world-wide 24x7 support for customers who wish to develop and deploy open source database solutions into their enterprise environments. Sun is working with the PostgresSQL community to take advantage of the advanced technologies in the Solaris 10 OS, such as Predictive Self-Healing, Solaris Containers and Solaris Dynamic Tracing (DTrace).'"

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  1. Progressive... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    First Apache, now Postgres?... What's next, will solaris understand cursor keys? Ship with BASH? What's the world comming to?

  2. Yeah, but... by Nuffsaid · · Score: 1, Funny

    This sounds good, but you can't say that Sun's behaviour recently has been spotless...

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  3. Re:Trolltrain leaving at platform 9... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    I think the general consensus on /. is that PostgreSQL is superior to MySQL

    Flat-files and grep is superior to MySQL.

  4. Re:PostgreSQL is good by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    no

  5. Don't bother by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 2, Funny
    There's no point in calling Red Hat today, they're going to be in meetings all day, trying to figure out "What do we do now?"

    That sound you hear, to coin a phrase, is Sun, cutting off Red Hat's air supply.

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  6. Re:Much bigger than just Postgres by The+Nine · · Score: 1, Funny

    Red package application support

    I knew those damn Sun bastards had turned communist when they released the Solaris source code!

  7. Wondering... by Capt+James+McCarthy · · Score: 2, Funny

    What Larry Ellison thinks of this announcement...

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  8. Re:An honest question. by v01d · · Score: 1, Funny

    Who uses Solaris 10?

    People trying to do stuff?

  9. Re:Why MySQL and not PostgreSQL? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Because Solaris is a real Operating System targeted at professionals. The people who will be installing and configuring PostgreSQL on Solaris 10 will have problems with the configuration. Those who are used to playing Sysadmin on their Gentoy box running MySQL will obviously find the idea of configuring PostgreSQL hard.

  10. Re:Sun Blog about improving performance by zardo · · Score: 3, Funny

    Postgres is a really nice database, but I think it's popularity is hindered by its crappy name. I propose a new name, like NuclearSQL or something.