Re: (wtf) Top 20 Open Source Software Projects in the Enterprise

On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 01:12:07AM -0300, Guido Barosio wrote:
> http://www.cioupdate.com/trends/article.php/3689871
>
> Only one database there, MySQL, wtf.

To quote...

"To come up with its Top 20 list, OpenLogic, a provider of open source
solutions that help its 700 Global 2000 enterprise customers acquire,
support, track and control open source software, queries its customers
as to which open source software projects they are using."

The reason MySQL shows and PostgreSQL doesn't is that there's all kinds
of other OSS projects that use MySQL, so it ends up in the door that
way. It's also got way more people that know it.

PostgreSQL OTOH typically only goes into an organization if they either
run into problems they can't solve in MySQL or if there's a (loud)
internal advocate.

This is why I disagree with the notion that MySQL isn't our
competition... this shows how it's popularity ends up hurting us.
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