Re: The two steps to being under the Sun...
От | Ned Lilly |
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Тема | Re: The two steps to being under the Sun... |
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Msg-id | 007701c37d4c$568c2f00$8000a8c0@Ned обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | The two steps to being under the Sun... (Rod Taylor <rbt@rbt.ca>) |
Список | pgsql-advocacy |
Correct. The hard fact of it, folks, is that a successful PostgreSQL is bad news for the following industry leaders: Oracle (directly) IBM (directly) Microsoft (directly) Sun (indirectly, due to partnership with Oracle) Red Hat (indirectly, due to partnerships with Oracle, IBM) The best possible high-visibility partners for PostgreSQL for large application vendors who wish to reduce their dependencyon (often competing) database vendors: Siebel (the best candidate, IMHO) SAP (already co-opted by MySQL) Peoplesoft (has a new DB2 relationship) etc. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Browne" <cbbrowne@libertyrms.info> To: <pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org> Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 1:36 PM Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] The two steps to being under the Sun... > josh@agliodbs.com (Josh Berkus) writes: > > Sun does not want to deal with any "real" open source projects. > > MySQL AB, which is a commercial company dabbling in open source, > > suits Sun's corprorate "personality" a lot better than we ever > > would. We won the technical evaluation and lost the corporate > > politics. > > Furthermore, MySQL isn't likely to seriously challenge any > relationships with their commercial 'partners.' > > If the "open source" database that they push is considered only > suitable for toy applications, then that's _perfect_ for any > partnering they do with vendors like Oracle. > > It is, as a result, perfectly natural for them to say "Well, if you > want to do any _real_ work with databases, then you should talk to our > partner here..." Nobody is likely to question that this is a good > idea. > > If, in contrast, they bundled something that _does_ scale better, > there might be an awkward pause if someone asks the question "... And > I need to upgrade to Oracle precisely why?" > -- > let name="cbbrowne" and tld="libertyrms.info" in String.concat "@" [name;tld];; > <http://dev6.int.libertyrms.com/> > Christopher Browne > (416) 646 3304 x124 (land) > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 1: subscribe and unsubscribe commands go to majordomo@postgresql.org > >
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