Salesforce will hire 40-50 Postgres people

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Post by aurelianito » Sun, Oct 21, 2012, 4:04 PM UTC

Salesforce will hire 40-50 Postgres people
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Re: Salesforce will hire 40-50 Postgres people

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Post by spidaman » Sun, Oct 21, 2012, 5:09 PM UTC

Salesforce spends a huge amount of money on licensing their horizontally scaled Oracle databases. I'd venture to guess this signals Benioff exploring a strategic bet to tell Ellison to fuck off once and for all.

Re: Salesforce will hire 40-50 Postgres people

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Post by jeremyjh » Sun, Oct 21, 2012, 5:15 PM UTC

This sounds like they could be building something awesome.

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Post by rabidsnail » Sun, Oct 21, 2012, 5:18 PM UTC

Reminder: Salesforce owns Heroku

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Post by sargun » Sun, Oct 21, 2012, 5:38 PM UTC

I wonder if they're finally switching from Oracle to Postgres. I know that their Oracle clusters are a significant portion of their bottom line. Alternatively, I wonder if this is a replacement for their new Hbase cluster for feeds.

There seem to be lots of projects at SFDC that could be supported by Postgresql. It's going to be great though, considering the community might get some great tools from this.

Re: Salesforce will hire 40-50 Postgres people

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Post by sheff » Sun, Oct 21, 2012, 6:01 PM UTC

From what I've read about the Salesforce Oracle backend in the past, they are big users of Oracle RAC .

Hopefully if Salesforce switch they will develop some form of Postgres clustering solution which would be great for the Postgres community, as an active-active clustering solution with the characteristics of RAC would make Postgres even more competitive in the enterprise.

Re: Salesforce will hire 40-50 Postgres people

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Post by mmaunder » Sun, Oct 21, 2012, 6:02 PM UTC

This is why. Every time I launch MySQL client:

Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 1024604 Server version: 5.1.63-0ubuntu0.10.04.1-log (Ubuntu)

Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Re: Salesforce will hire 40-50 Postgres people

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Post by jcdavis » Sun, Oct 21, 2012, 6:09 PM UTC

sargun wrote: post #5

I wonder if they're finally switching from Oracle to Postgres. I know that their Oracle clusters are a significant portion of their bottom line. Alternatively, I wonder if this is a replacement for their new Hbase cluster for feeds. There seem to be lots of projects at SFDC that could be supported by Postgresql. It's going to be great though, considering the community might get some great tools from this.

When I was still at SFDC (January), postgres was being cautiously looked into as an Oracle alternative (along with HBase for certain parts, which has definitely been happening). Glad to see they are going for it.

Re: Salesforce will hire 40-50 Postgres people

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Post by olalonde » Sun, Oct 21, 2012, 6:34 PM UTC

mmaunder wrote: post #7

This is why. Every time I launch MySQL client: Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g. Your MySQL connection id is 1024604 Server version: 5.1.63-0ubuntu0.10.04.1-log (Ubuntu) Copyright (c) 2000, 2011, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. Oracle is a registered trademark of Oracle Corporation and/or its affiliates. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

I don't get it...

Re: Salesforce will hire 40-50 Postgres people

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Post by kami8845 » Sun, Oct 21, 2012, 6:36 PM UTC

spidaman wrote: post #2

Salesforce spends a huge amount of money on licensing their horizontally scaled Oracle databases. I'd venture to guess this signals Benioff exploring a strategic bet to tell Ellison to fuck off once and for all.

Actually hiring 50 people sounds more like a decisive plan than "exploring a strategic bet".