Great Bridge, PostgreSQL vendor, ceases operations. During its 16 months of operations, Great Bridge recorded an impressive list of accomplishments, including assembling the industry's deepest talent pool of PostgreSQL expertise; releasing the first-ever commercially distributed version of PostgreSQL; … and being named to FORTUNE magazine's 25 Coolest Global Companies.
The company was not able, however, to turn this momentum into revenues that met its business plan milestones.
Databases are driven by applications. Oracle and MS SQL Server run thousands of commercial applications. Without commercial applications driving sales and Red Hat eating their lunch…there wasn't anywhere for them to grow…