Hi HP3000-L,

To quote another Californian known for (offline) infrastructure work, "There it
is, take it":

        http://www.bixby.org/mark/postgresqlix.html

(Trivia contest: can you identify the quotation without doing a web search?)

PostgreSQL is a full-featured RDBMS with ODBC/JDBC drivers, integration from
many modern scripting languages like Perl, PHP, Python, etc, and an army of
open source developers constantly improving the product.

To learn more about open source PostgreSQL, including its history and how you
pronounce the name ;-), please visit http://www.postgresql.org/.

Open source changes everything:

- Popular open source apps can be EASY to port to MPE even if those apps are
large and complicated.

- One person porting something like PostgreSQL leverages the efforts of the
many passionate developers who work 24x7 on the product.

- No corporation will ever take away your right to run an open source software
app on MPE.  The source code is yours to keep forever.

- Need an enhancement done?  Since you have the source, you have the power to
do whatever enhancements you want.

Please note that bixby.org projects are STRICTLY my personal initiatives and
are IN NO WAY related to any current or future HP CSY products or plans.

So there it is, take it.  Do good things with it.  Do cool things with it.
Make oodles of money with it.

If you think PostgreSQL is the greatest thing since sliced bread, you can repay
me for my efforts by joining the MPE Porting Club and porting one new open
source application that doesn't yet exist on MPE.  :-)
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