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From: 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
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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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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