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help / color / mirror / Atom feedFrom: Andrew Payne <[email protected]>
To: scott.marlowe <[email protected]>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL advocacy <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: What can we learn from MySQL?
Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 22:51:08 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
Scott Marlowe wrote:
> While Apache is and has been wildly popular for bulk hosing and domain
> parking, for serious commercial use, Netscape's enterprise server, now Sun
> One, has long been a leader in commercial web sites.
Netscrape/SunONE may have been a leader in some sub-market, but this misses
the point.
Apache + NCSA never had less than 50% market share, overall.
http://news.netcraft.com/archives/web_server_survey.html
Postgres is in a completely different situation: 95+?% of the world's
databases don't run on Postgres, and it's been this way for a long time.
Also, Apache never had "MyApache", a more popular version that many believe
to be "free" and "open source".
My point: Apache was successful in a situation that may not apply here.
Does anyone know of an open source project that *has* successfully displaced
a market of mature, established products WITHOUT a commercial entity
providing marketing, support & direction?
-andy
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