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February 21, 2007
Ray Lane Digging Open Source
Looks like folks interested in MySQL + Postgres aren't the only ones eying the open source model. It seems Ray Lane is too. As a general partner at Kleiner Perkins Kaufield & Byers he will be an advisor to Vertica, a new open source database startup.
Vertica Systems is building a fast new database system which it claims can execute queries 100 times faster than row-oriented relational database systems. Of course marketing hype aside, without a quantifiable description of such a test, and how each database was setup, it remains to be seen whether it will actually meet that claim.
Ray Lane is no newcomer to the industry, having been Oracle's own president and COO back in the early 1990's.
If you're interested in some further reading on the subject of Oracle history, I highly recommend The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: God Doesn't Think He Is Larry Ellison.
Posted by admin at February 21, 2007 01:44 AM