Re: [pgsql-advocacy] MySQL gets $19.5 MM - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ned Lilly
Subject Re: [pgsql-advocacy] MySQL gets $19.5 MM
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In response to MySQL gets $19.5 MM  ("Ned Lilly" <ned@nedscape.com>)
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Josh Berkus wrote:

> Jean-Michel,
>
> Please cc: this to the original poster:


He did.

> > > PostgreSQL.  Today, it's clearly the superior product.  It will be
>
> It is really?   According to which criteria?  Clearly more popular, certainly.
> However, I may point out that MS Access still has more installations than
> MySQL ...and nobody is calling MS Access a "superior database product".


Er... I said PostgreSQL was the superior product.  Re-read the original post.

> To be completely blunt:  MySQL the database will not easily survive the demise
> of MySQL AB.

Agreed.  But $19MM ought to buy them a little more time.

Regards,
Ned

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