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From: Andrew Payne <[email protected]>
To: Joshua D. Drake <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL-development <[email protected]>
Cc: PostgreSQL advocacy <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] What can we learn from MySQL?
Date: Sat, 1 May 2004 10:28:25 -0400
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>


Joshua wrote:

> Why would someone fund a "new" PostgreSQL project when there are several
> viable commercial entities doing the job right now?

Four words:  "size of marketing budget".

As a technology guy, it bugs me to acknowledge that.  But having lived
through this a few times, it is the way it works.

-andy

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