Great Bridge Developers to Keynote Open Source Database Summit; Project Management, Transaction Processing On the Agenda.Business/Technology Editors NORFOLK, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 24, 2000 Two leading open source developers, Bruce Momjian, vice president of database development, and Tom Lane, senior software engineer at Great Bridge LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , will keynote the Open Source Database Summit, hosted by the Open Source Development Network, October 30 and 31 in San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. . With the number of Linux operating system and Apache web server See Apache. users growing rapidly, open source programming is gaining increased awareness among enterprise technology professionals. With its reputation for stability, reliability and anti-bloat programming, open source software is now getting a look from businesses of every size. As the database server becomes the integral part of e-business infrastructure, open source is poised to become a much larger player in the database business, estimated at $11 billion in 1999 by IDC. Great Bridge provides solutions powered by PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database. The Open Source Database Summit brings developers and administrators together with the world's leading open source database gurus. Great Bridge's Momjian is a founding member of the PostgreSQL Global Development Team, and recently authored a definitive guide to PostgreSQL titled PostgreSQL: Introduction and Concepts (Addison Wesley). As Great Bridge vice president of database development, Momjian continues his leadership in the PostgreSQL project, and guides the company's development work on advanced database features, all of which will be contributed back to the open source community. Momjian will lead a discussion on managing open source projects. Great Bridge's Lane, an open source citizen in good standing for more than 10 years, is well known as the lead programmer for the Independent JPEG JPEG in full Joint Photographic Experts Group Standard computer file format for storing graphic images in a compressed form for general use. JPEG images are compressed using a mathematical algorithm. Group, an informal collection of programmers who release free software for JPEG image compression. Lane, who joined the PostgreSQL Global Development Team earlier this year, is known as a champion bug fixer fixer, n the chemicals used in the final step of film processing that remove the unaffected silver halide particles from the developed film. fixer with a deep commitment to improving and popularizing open source technologies. Lane will present two sessions: an overview of PostgreSQL internals and a session on PostgreSQL's approach to concurrency Operations that are performed simultaneously within the computer. For example, dual-core CPUs provide complete overlapping of two independent processes. See dual core, hyperthreading, multiprocessing, multitasking, multithreading, SMP and MPP. concurrency - multitasking and transaction processing, including locking mechanisms and protocols, tuple (1) In a relational database, a tuple is one record (one row). See record and relational database. (2) A set of values passed from one programming language to another application program or to a system program such as the operating system. status management, and commit and abort processing. "I'm excited to see the leading luminaries in open source database development coming together to discuss topics of interest to a wide spectrum of database developers and users," said Momjian. "Open source databases are viable solutions for businesses looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. powerful, lower cost alternatives to closed, proprietary offerings. The Open Source Database Summit gives these emerging open source technologies the attention they deserve." The summit will be held at The Hayes Mansion Conference Center in San Jose, California, on October 30-31. For more information visit www.osdn.com/conf/osd/conf_index.shtml. About Great Bridge Great Bridge LLC provides open source solutions powered by PostgreSQL, the world's most advanced open source database. Great Bridge delivers value-added open source software and support services support services Psychology Non-health care-related ancillary services–eg, transportation, financial aid, support groups, homemaker services, respite services, and other services based on PostgreSQL, empowering e-business builders with an enterprise-class database and tools at a fraction of the cost of closed, proprietary alternatives. Headquartered in Norfolk, Virginia, Great Bridge is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. funded by Landmark Communications, Inc., the media company that also owns The Weather Channel, weather.com, and national and international interests in newspapers, broadcasting, electronic publishing, and interactive media. |
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