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2003-11-17 PostgreSQL™ 7.4 Released

The PostgreSQL™ Global Development Group (PGDG) is pleased to announce the availability of version 7.4 of the PostgreSQL™ Object Relational Database Management System (ORDBMS). Version 7.4 includes a host of new features which make PostgreSQL™ a more powerful and scalable database for large enterprises. These include AMD Opteron(tm) optimization, improved index maintenance tools, and enhanced support of full text indexing which adds ranked result sets. Combined with the recent contribution of the eRServer(c) replication solution by PostgreSQL Inc., these advances fulfill PostgreSQL's potential to run high-availability, large-scale data centers.

2003-04-23 OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE Case Studies Examining its Use [Dravis, 2003] (PDF)

Key Research Findings Cost is a significant factor driving adoption. Control and flexibility are considered benefits as well. Implementation of open solutions is evolutionary, not revolutionary. Open source extends across the entire software stack. Product support is not a significant concern. Open source is not a magic solution. Open standards may be more important than open source.

2003-01-20 PostgreSQL™ affiliates .ORG domain BY NADIA CAMERON, COMPUTERWORLD, Australia [NEWS]

PostgreSQL™ developers and advocates notched up a significant win for the open source database following the successful transition this month of the .ORG domain registry to the object-relational management system. Database vendor Afilias, which maintains the back-end services of the domain name database on behalf of registry operator Public Interest Registry (PIR), began transferring .ORG information across to its PostgreSQL™ system on January 1 this year.

2002-11-28 PostgreSQL™ Version 7.3 Released [PRESS]

The PostgreSQL™ Global Development Group proudly announces the release of version 7.3 of the PostgreSQL™ object-relational database management system (ORDBMS). "PostgreSQL™ 7.3 is full of new, oft requested features such as SQL '92 schemas, prepared statements, and stored procedures that can return record sets. And under the hood there is a new dependency tracking system that allows PostgreSQL™ to *safely* support many more subtle enhancements like the ability to drop columns," said Neil Conway, a member of the PostgreSQL™ Global Development Team.

2002-10-17 Bloomberg: Microsoft's Ballmer Sees Free Software as Enemy No. 1 [NEWS]

"The advantage of open source is pretty hard to match,'' said Ram Mohan, chief technology officer at Afilias Ltd., which uses the free Postgres database to store and manage 3.5 million Internet addresses. "Microsoft makes awesome products, but they're not aimed at my specific needs."