On 01/08/2016 10:08 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote:
>>> Yeah, that's a chronic problem. The press can't seem to get their heads
>>> around the idea that PostgreSQL isn't owned by a single company.
>>
>> They somehow mostly got the idea that Linux isn't. How did that work?
>
> I would say Linus sounding off at regular intervals made that plain:)
That and there is a history with Linux that PostgreSQL does not have. At
the height of Linux fever there was:
RedHat
Caldera
TurboLinux
SuSE
etc....
For PostgreSQL, there is: EDB.
The rest of us (CMD, 2Q, OmniTI, etc...) are all just service providers.
EDB is the only "distribution" of PostgreSQL.
JD
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