Announcement: I've joined Red Hat

Started by Tom Laneabout 24 years ago9 messages
#1Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us

As most of you probably know, my former employer Great Bridge folded a
couple months ago. I am happy to announce that I've accepted a position
with Red Hat Inc, working in their database group. I expect to be able
to continue full-time involvement with PostgreSQL. (Or should I say
"Red Hat Database" now?) I'm excited about this opportunity, and
believe that it will work out in the best interests of the Postgres
community as well as of the company.

regards, tom lane

#2Hannu Krosing
hannu@tm.ee
In reply to: Tom Lane (#1)
Re: Announcement: I've joined Red Hat

Tom Lane wrote:

As most of you probably know, my former employer Great Bridge folded a
couple months ago. I am happy to announce that I've accepted a position
with Red Hat Inc, working in their database group. I expect to be able
to continue full-time involvement with PostgreSQL. (Or should I say
"Red Hat Database" now?)

Congratulations! It really seems like a smart (altough expected) move
from RH :)

I'm excited about this opportunity, and
believe that it will work out in the best interests of the Postgres
community as well as of the company.

Will there be any other "acquisitions" by RH ?

Them getting Cygnus of all things available also seemed like a really
bright idea so I
have quite high expectations for them.

PS. Is it postgres community or postgreSQL community ? ;)

-------------------------

Hannu

#3Jeff Davis
list-pgsql-hackers@dynworks.com
In reply to: Tom Lane (#1)
Re: Announcement: I've joined Red Hat

Best of luck to you!

Jeff

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On Tuesday 27 November 2001 12:21 pm, you wrote:

As most of you probably know, my former employer Great Bridge folded a
couple months ago. I am happy to announce that I've accepted a position
with Red Hat Inc, working in their database group. I expect to be able
to continue full-time involvement with PostgreSQL. (Or should I say
"Red Hat Database" now?) I'm excited about this opportunity, and
believe that it will work out in the best interests of the Postgres
community as well as of the company.

regards, tom lane

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#4Khoa Do
kdo@stratacare.com
In reply to: Jeff Davis (#3)
Re: Announcement: I've joined Red Hat

Does this mean there will be two versions of PostgreSQL?

-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Lane [mailto:tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us]
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 12:21 PM
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: [HACKERS] Announcement: I've joined Red Hat

As most of you probably know, my former employer Great Bridge folded a
couple months ago. I am happy to announce that I've accepted a position
with Red Hat Inc, working in their database group. I expect to be able to
continue full-time involvement with PostgreSQL. (Or should I say "Red Hat
Database" now?) I'm excited about this opportunity, and believe that it
will work out in the best interests of the Postgres community as well as of
the company.

regards, tom lane

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#5Vince Vielhaber
vev@michvhf.com
In reply to: Tom Lane (#1)
Re: Announcement: I've joined Red Hat

On Tue, 27 Nov 2001, Tom Lane wrote:

As most of you probably know, my former employer Great Bridge folded a
couple months ago. I am happy to announce that I've accepted a position
with Red Hat Inc, working in their database group. I expect to be able
to continue full-time involvement with PostgreSQL. (Or should I say
"Red Hat Database" now?) I'm excited about this opportunity, and
believe that it will work out in the best interests of the Postgres
community as well as of the company.

Congrats Tom!

Vince.
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#6Tom Lane
tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us
In reply to: Khoa Do (#4)
Re: Announcement: I've joined Red Hat

Khoa Do <kdo@stratacare.com> writes:

Does this mean there will be two versions of PostgreSQL?

If you mean a code fork, no. Red Hat hasn't forked any of the other
open-source projects they contribute to; why would they start with
Postgres?

It seems entirely possible that at any given time, what Red Hat is
selling as RHDB might be ahead of, behind, or different from the
latest community release of Postgres, just because of differing
release cycles, features not merged yet, or whatever. But there's
no intention to cause a fork.

regards, tom lane

#7Lamar Owen
lamar.owen@wgcr.org
In reply to: Tom Lane (#1)
Re: Announcement: I've joined Red Hat

On Tuesday 27 November 2001 03:21 pm, Tom Lane wrote:

As most of you probably know, my former employer Great Bridge folded a
couple months ago. I am happy to announce that I've accepted a position
with Red Hat Inc, working in their database group. I expect to be able
to continue full-time involvement with PostgreSQL. (Or should I say
"Red Hat Database" now?) I'm excited about this opportunity, and
believe that it will work out in the best interests of the Postgres
community as well as of the company.

Woof!

Glad to hear it, Tom. Well, that certainly eased some of the potential
concerns about the direction of RHDB in my mind, at least.
--
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
1 Peter 4:11

#8mlw
markw@mohawksoft.com
In reply to: Tom Lane (#1)
Re: Announcement: I've joined Red Hat

Fantastic!
I was worried about RedHat becoming the "Microsoft of Linux," but every step
they have taken seems to indicate they wish to take the high road.

Good luck.

Tom Lane wrote:

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As most of you probably know, my former employer Great Bridge folded a
couple months ago. I am happy to announce that I've accepted a position
with Red Hat Inc, working in their database group. I expect to be able
to continue full-time involvement with PostgreSQL. (Or should I say
"Red Hat Database" now?) I'm excited about this opportunity, and
believe that it will work out in the best interests of the Postgres
community as well as of the company.

#9Andy Samuel
andysamuel@geocities.com
In reply to: Tom Lane (#1)
Re: Announcement: I've joined Red Hat

Wish you and all of PostgreSQL hackers out there the best :)

warm regards
Andy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Lane" <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>
To: <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 28, 2001 3:21 AM
Subject: [HACKERS] Announcement: I've joined Red Hat

Show quoted text

As most of you probably know, my former employer Great Bridge folded a
couple months ago. I am happy to announce that I've accepted a position
with Red Hat Inc, working in their database group. I expect to be able
to continue full-time involvement with PostgreSQL. (Or should I say
"Red Hat Database" now?) I'm excited about this opportunity, and
believe that it will work out in the best interests of the Postgres
community as well as of the company.

regards, tom lane

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