At my last company one of the biggest complaints against postgreSQL (when being compared to oracle) was that it "could only scale to 20 cores", which made it unsuitable for "enterprise use". Nice to see that non-issue removed.
Shane, I think most of the complaints about postgres at said company were made out of a pre-existing bias towards the expensive commercial solution, rather than against the (at the time, admittedly) somewhat less capable FOSS project. When I was asked about vertical scalability, I told them "16-20 cores right now, but at the rate they're improving things, it'll be 32, and then 64 in the next 3-5 years." Nice to see things tracking so closely with my predictions.
Hey Rosser! Didn't know you hung out here.