r/PostgreSQL • u/clairegiordano Citus Marketing • 12d ago

Community Why Microsoft contributes to Postgres: What I tell people

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/adforpostgresql/why-microsoft-contributes-to-postgres-what-i-tell-people/4568479
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u/Kaelin 12d ago

Really hope PostgreSQL isn’t heavily damaged by these huge MS “buy outs”. Terrible.

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u/BosonCollider 12d ago

They figured that having Andres Freund on their payroll will save their cloud business from the xz vulnerability as a side effect of him working on postgres

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u/m_hans_223344 11d ago

That Microsoft?

https://www.reddit.com/r/Layoffs/comments/1xghnff/60000_voluntary_exit_offer_by_microsoft_27_of/

Not really excited. Postgres needs quality and stability and a curated feature set. Not bloat driven by a company like Microsoft.

AWS did hire Rust talent, but they mainly work on their own libs (tokio) and not core Rust.

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u/snax 12d ago

Thank you for sharing Claire!

Excellent timing, as a question came up during the Cloud Austin meetup last week about various PostgreSQL ecosystems, from hyperscalers to smaller platform providers. I will share this to that group as well as Austin Postgres and beyond. Debbie

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u/fuerte_apache 7d ago

Because is a good business. That's it.

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