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Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:57:06 -0400
From: "Jonah H. Harris" <jonah.harris@gmail.com>
To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] [PERFORM] Postgres VS Oracle
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On 6/18/07, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> Yeah funny how you didn't do that ;) (of course neither did I).

I agree, an oops on my part :)

> It is amazing how completely misguided you are in this response. I
> haven't said anything closed minded. I only responded to your rather
> antagonistic response to a reasonably innocuous question of: "As a
> cynic, I might ask, what Oracle is fearing? "

I wasn't responding to you, just to the seemingly closed-mindedness of
the original question/statement.  We're all aware of the reasons, for
and against, proprietary system licenses prohibiting benchmarking.

> It is a good question to ask, and a good question to discuss.

Certainly, but can one expect to get a realistic answer to an, "is
Oracle fearing something" question on he PostgreSQL list?  Or was it
just a backhanded attempt at pushing the topic again?  My vote is for
the latter; it served no purpose other than to push the
competitiveness topic again.

> I haven't seen any bashing going on yet. Shall we start with the closed
> mindedness and unfairness of per cpu license and support models?

Not preferably, you make me type too much :)

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