X-Original-To: pgsql-advocacy-postgresql.org@localhost.postgresql.org Received: from localhost (unknown [200.46.204.2]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1D578D1B892 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:30:29 -0300 (ADT) Received: from svr1.postgresql.org ([200.46.204.71]) by localhost (neptune.hub.org [200.46.204.2]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 01579-05 for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:30:23 -0300 (ADT) Received: from davinci.ethosmedia.com (server228.ethosmedia.com [209.128.84.228]) by svr1.postgresql.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 680EDD1B8AE for ; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 16:30:21 -0300 (ADT) Received: from [64.81.245.111] (HELO 192.168.1.102) by davinci.ethosmedia.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.1.8) with ESMTP id 4965254; Wed, 28 Apr 2004 12:31:48 -0700 From: Josh Berkus Reply-To: josh@agliodbs.com Organization: Aglio Database Solutions To: "scott.marlowe" , Greg Sabino Mullane Subject: Re: What can we learn from MySQL? Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 12:30:41 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.4 Cc: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200404281230.41129.josh@agliodbs.com> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at postgresql.org X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.3 tagged_above=0.0 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_NUMERIC_HELO X-Spam-Level: X-Archive-Number: 200404/286 X-Sequence-Number: 4258 Scott, >Personally, I don't care if > postgresql captures 1% of the market of 99% of the market, as long as it > remains the solid, reliable dbms engine it is. I agree that we don't have to have a majority of the market to be "successful." However, there is a very accurate adage in both business and politics: "If you're not growing, you're shrinking." We need to continue to grow, not necessarily to take over the market, but to make sure that we don't disappear entirely. I don't want to be the "betamax of databases". -- -Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco