November 7, 2009

Calpont’s InfiniDB

Since its inception, Calpont has gone through multiple management teams, strategies, and investor groups. What it hadn’t done, ever, is actually shipped a product. Last week, however, Calpont introduced a free/open source DBMS, InfiniDB, with technical details somewhat reminiscent of what Calpont was promising last April. Highlights include:

Being on vacation, I’ll stop there for now. (If it weren’t for Tropical Storm/ depression Ida, I might not even be posting this much until I get back.)

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3 Responses to “Calpont’s InfiniDB”

  1. Further thoughts on previous posts | DBMS 2 : DataBase Management System Services on September 27th, 2010 7:29 am

    […] Calpont has an ever-slicker website and yet another new marketing VP, but no customers that are easy to detect. […]

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    […] seems to have difficulty finding non-trivial “Strengths” for Calpont. I […]

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