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To: Robert Treat <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruno Wolff III <[email protected]>
Cc: Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: What can we learn from MySQL?
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 09:26:37 -0400
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Robert Treat wrote:
>On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 00:48, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>
>
>>On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 01:30:23 -0000,
>> Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I care. More market share equals more jobs, which equals more people
>>>working on the project. It's all well and good to treat Postgres as
>>>an academic exercise, but at some point the work needs to be applied
>>>to real world stuff. We are competing with real-world, commercial
>>>projects right now, and the success of how well we do will directly
>>>impact this project. Do you think that Red Hat will continue to employ
>>>Tom Lane if Postgres fades away into a footnote and something else
>>>becomes the database of choice for Red Hat? Do you realize that every
>>>time a company chooses us, jobs are created for people who use,
>>>test, and even develop PostgreSQL?
>>>
>>>
>>And more support questions get asked taking time away from development.
>>For companies the net balance is probably in postgres' favor on average.
>>However, getting individuals to use postgres who have no background
>>in databases may be a net minus. Hopefully that won't happen. It will
>>be interesting to see what happens to the support lists after the
>>windows port is available.
>>
>>
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>Which is one of the reasons that I think chasing my$ql's market is the
>wrong way to go. We need to be looking for oracle/db2 converts... or at
>the least informix/progress/m$ or other 2nd tier databases that we are
>most likely already superior too.
>
>
>
I think the pg grassroots are low end users (ie: people with less
knowledge and budgets than the established parties). Everything of an
opensource nature has always gained popularity and strength from these
people.
MySQL has a constituency that came from here. The grass roots are people
who are willing to invest the energy needed to adopt to change which is
what pg represents.
Robert Bernier
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