Re: What can we learn from MySQL?
От | Robert Treat |
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Тема | Re: What can we learn from MySQL? |
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Msg-id | 1083244117.14686.146.camel@camel обсуждение исходный текст |
Ответ на | Re: What can we learn from MySQL? (Bruno Wolff III <bruno@wolff.to>) |
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Re: What can we learn from MySQL?
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Список | pgsql-advocacy |
On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 00:48, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 01:30:23 -0000, > Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com> wrote: > > I care. More market share equals more jobs, which equals more people > > working on the project. It's all well and good to treat Postgres as > > an academic exercise, but at some point the work needs to be applied > > to real world stuff. We are competing with real-world, commercial > > projects right now, and the success of how well we do will directly > > impact this project. Do you think that Red Hat will continue to employ > > Tom Lane if Postgres fades away into a footnote and something else > > becomes the database of choice for Red Hat? Do you realize that every > > time a company chooses us, jobs are created for people who use, > > test, and even develop PostgreSQL? > > And more support questions get asked taking time away from development. > For companies the net balance is probably in postgres' favor on average. > However, getting individuals to use postgres who have no background > in databases may be a net minus. Hopefully that won't happen. It will > be interesting to see what happens to the support lists after the > windows port is available. > Which is one of the reasons that I think chasing my$ql's market is the wrong way to go. We need to be looking for oracle/db2 converts... or at the least informix/progress/m$ or other 2nd tier databases that we are most likely already superior too. Robert Treat -- Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
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