Tom Lane joins Salesforce.com

Those of us at another arm of Salesforce ( <a href="http://postgres.heroku.com" rel="nofollow">http://postgres.heroku.com</a> ) are incredibly honored to have Tom join the family. The team they've put together there is doing some really exciting work.

Tom Lane is a hero. Guy worked on TIFF, did a ton of PNG, then organized JPEG, and now does seriously awesome work on postgres, and has for some time.<p>He also responds to a ton of postgres mailing list emails <a href="http://www.citusdata.com/blog/57-postgresql-full-text-search" rel="nofollow">http://www.citusdata.com/blog/57-postgresql-full-text-search</a>

For a little more context on why this might matter: <a href="http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/salesforce-oracle" rel="nofollow">http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/salesforce-orac...</a>

I always look forward to reading Toms stuff on the pgsql-hackers mailing list - I hope this move means Salesforce is making a big push into Postgres core development.<p>BTW, the linked page also has some interesting notes on what the PG developers are planning to work on in upcoming releases, and is well worth a read.