Re: [Postgres-xc-general] will Postgre-XC be commercialized?

[Michael P. <mic...@gm...>]

> I have read the (just) story about bizgres and c-store, from it's
> development progress until it was commercialized by it's developer.
> That's so sad because the original project was not to be maintained.
>
Postgres-XC is under BSD license (PostgreSQL license), so you can edit the
code, copy the code and even sell it if you wish as a closed source package.
You can also make money from it by becoming a specialist of this technology
and sell support and consulting services.
However there are really few specialists in the world that really
understand deeply this kind of technology, and even lesser who can work on
the code or design applications for clusters based on XC.

What are Postgres-XC plans, will be in the future?
>
Becoming a reference and a real alternative to closed source (and costly)
solutions like one I won't give the name (Or????AC).

How to achieve them?
>
By supporting and helping the project.
There are several ways to support the project:
- first learn how to use it
- register to the mailing lists and do not hesitate to ask questions
- report bugs, even better => report bugs and submit patches fixing them.
- improve the documentation and submit patch for that
- build and publish packages
- search for funds to support developers if you want some new features
- promote the project at conferences or by writing articles about it.
- provide machines for buildfarming and extend the currently supported OS.
- provide some website architecture similar to postgresql.org.
That's all I have in mind now... However, there may be some other things
people could do.

Regards,
-- 
Michael Paquier
http://michael.otacoo.com