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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Magnus Hagander <[email protected]>
To: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
Cc: Derek Rodner <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: EnterpriseDB Postgres
Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 18:44:53 +0200
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On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 09:37:28AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> > thrive on that. My college basketball team is always the underdog.
> > EnterpriseDB is the underdog to Oracle. Postgres is the underdog to
> > MySQL. I am starting to get sick of that and want Postgres to stop
> > being the underdog. We know we are better than MySQL. Most of the
>
> I was with you, until right here. I think you have vastly misestimated
> the market. I will concur that PostgreSQL is the underdog to MySQL in
> one very specific sense:
>
> The ignorant and the code monkey.
I assume you claim the press is ignorant? Because they're certainly not
codemonkeys ;-)
Sure, they may be, but we still need them, and a press release is much
directed at the press - they won't report it if they don't find it
interesting. And *they* haven't looked over mysql *or* postgresql
enough to know the difference.
//Magnus
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