PostgreSQL Shows How Open Source Support Can Be Hard To Come By

When companies embrace an open source project, getting good support is one of the key factors.

Companies may want a solid, for-profit vendor providing support when they embrace an open source project. One shortcut to checking on a support company's qualifications is to find how many of a project's core developers, the ones who commit code to the code base, are employed by the support firm. But the history of support for the PostgreSQL database offers a cautionary tale.

PostgreSQL Shows How Open Source Support Can Be Hard To Come By