From: Kevin Brown <kevin@sysexperts.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Are we losing momentum?
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 17:30:27 -0700
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<Pine.LNX.4.21.0304151002040.10732-100000@linuxworld.com.au>
Gavin Sherry wrote:
> During a lecture series at a university, I was criticised for not
> discussing Oracle instead of Postgres -- students told me that
> Oracle will make them money and Postgres wont.
Their impressions are probably based on reality as it was a couple of
years ago before the U.S. economy came crashing down.
But today? Companies are trying to figure out how to do things
cheaper, and there are a lot of situations for which Postgres is a
good fit but for which MySQL is a bad fit -- if it'll fit at all.
I seriously think the native Win32 port of Postgres will make a big
difference, because it'll be a SQL Server killer. Especially if it
comes with a nice administrative GUI. :-)
--
Kevin Brown kevin@sysexperts.com
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