PostgreSQL - Community meets Business
Presented by:
Michael Meskes
Michael Meskes holds a Ph.D. in database science and has worked in the open-source industry his whole career. After his time at RWTH Aachen university he started and ran credativ, a pure open-source company that is now part of NetApp, where Michael is still leading the same group of open-source enthusiasts. On top of that he is tasked with improving open-source work within NetApp.
Coming from the Unix landscape he started working on free and open-source software in 1993 and subsequently joined several free software projects like the Linux kernel (1994), Debian GNU/Linux (1995) and PostgreSQL (1996). He is still active as a Debian developer and a PostgreSQL committer as much as his real life commitments allow him to.
Michael has engaged in significant open-source evangelism and given related presentations at numerous events. He teaches open-source infrastructure and cloud components at a local university as an adjunct professor.
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This presentation shows why the software created by the PostgreSQL community is (one of) the most important pieces of Open Source for business users. It gives some motivations for the immense growth in enterprise space PostgreSQL experienced in recent years. With PostgreSQL not only fulfilling the technical requirements, but also the operations requirements it quickly became a strategical choice for a lot of companies, be it for internal IT or one of the database systems of choice that are supported by their own product.
- Date:
- Duration:
- 30 min
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- Conference:
- PGConf US 2015 [PgConf.US]
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- Track:
- Strategy
- Difficulty:
- Medium