RE: RFC: PostgreSQL and MySQL comparison.
От | Otto Hirr |
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Тема | RE: RFC: PostgreSQL and MySQL comparison. |
Дата | |
Msg-id | 02be01c130d2$8938c8f0$7cf7663f@frodo обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | RE: RFC: PostgreSQL and MySQL comparison. ("Robert J. Sanford, Jr." <rsanford@nolimitsystems.com>) |
Список | pgsql-general |
> ... > ... mysql v postgres > ... In a book on marketing warfare (maybe the one by Ries & Trout) there was a question about who was the competitor: You own a hotel on a small desert island across the street from another hotel. The question is are they your real threat as a competitor and should you try to drive them down, maybe out of business? The real competitor is the other, next, nearest "island" 300 miles away - and not the hotel across the street. If either of the hotels go out, the whole island economy falters and you may go with it. What you really want is to compete against the other island. If the business of the hotel across the street goes up, then your own business is like to grow also. The issue in this case is who is the real, significant competitor. It reminds me about unix. Let see, is it Sun or HP that has the better unix. Opps, how about IBM, or Sony, NEC, FreeBSD, NetBSD, SCO, or ... and opps I forgot Linux, oh how could I do that? And it would be better to have start up run scripts where?, what is the better x-type windowing system?, ... But, MSDOS was MSDOS, was MSDOS... and MS Windows was MS Windows, is MS Windows So who is the real competitor - HP v Sun v Ibm v ... all unix and all slightly different in such miniscule amounts (I'll probably get flamed for that...) or unix v MS Windows... What would have happened if the unix vendors laid down their NIH and joined each other? So who is the real, important competitor? Is it so much important to "compete" between mysql and postgres, or is it more important to compete with the proprietary databases. They all must laugh themselves silly at times. But I tell you that there would be a WHOLE lot more concern if the HUGE amount of brains and talent on both these projects all laid down their editors, compilers, os's, and their deeply entrenched NIH attitude and join forces with each other. What would that be like? Is it possible? So you feel like competing, then compete against your own self to ask what you could learn from each other, then change direction and compete against your COMMON competitor - the proprietary databases. Just some rambling thoughts - and certainly not to try and tit-for-tat war. Regards, .. Otto
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