Saturday, January 15 2011, 08:00 am

Red Hat Irony

A company devoted to promoting open source initiatives uses one of the largest closed source database engines on the planet. Red Hat uses Oracle, in particular, with their Satellite software (a.k.a. Spacewalk). The bright light at the end of the tunnel is that they are switching to using PostgreSQL, however it is not a high priority so it may take another year or two before the transition is complete.