Will Postgres Live Forever?
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Claims that open source outlives proprietary software with a concrete example: Postgres is resurrected in 1996 and shows steady development over 35 years. Evidence includes extensibility—foreign data wrappers, custom data types, pl languages—plus modern features like a JSON operator and 180 features in Postgres 14. Survey result: cost attracts users but innovation keeps them. Progress toward sharding and real-world resurrection stories (Falcon 4) show working, testable outcomes.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Start
- 4:14Forever Is a Long Time
- 6:14Brief Digital History
- 10:58Proprietary Software Life Cycle
- 17:03Open Source Software Life Cycle
- 22:38Proprietary Development Flow
- 28:46When Does Software Die?
- 35:11Advantages of Open Source for Database Decision Makers
- 44:22Community Structure
