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Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2007 09:49:46 -0700
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
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To: Derek Rodner <derek.rodner@enterprisedb.com>
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Subject: Re: EnterpriseDB Postgres
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Derek Rodner wrote:
> Josh,
> 
> We are trying to make it easy for the newbies and that is what this new
> distribution and site are designed for!!!!!
> 
> As for the comment about the Fortune 1000?  They ALL RUN MySQL
> somewhere.  We know.  We have talked to them.  They actually recognize
> that it is not enterprise-class, etc.  but, it was free and easy to use.

They don't run it where they would be running Oracle. They do run
PostgreSQL in those spots. Oh and as a sticking point, I said Fortune
5000 ;)

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

> 
> 
> 
> Derek M. Rodner
> Director, Product Strategy
> EnterpriseDB Corporation
> 732.331.1333 office
> 484.252.1943 cell
> www.enterprisedb.com
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:jd@commandprompt.com] 
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 9:37 AM
> To: Derek Rodner
> Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] EnterpriseDB Postgres
> 
>> 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.
> 
> The knowledgable (including many of the fortune 5000) won't touch MySQL
> because it is broke, where PostgreSQL isn't.
> 
> Now all that being said, there is zero argument that if you can get all
> the people running Ubuntu, wanting to run PostgreSQL that our community
> will grow. However I wonder, seriously how much of our community would
> be willing to deal with that level of newness.
> 
> A good portion of our community are DBMS snobs. They have no basis in
> reality and are more interested in what is "right" versus what actually
> "works".
> 
> Is that bad? I don't know, sometimes, sometimes not.
> 
> Sincerely,
> 
> Joshua D. Drake

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