Re: Problem with recent PostgreSQL relatedpressrelease - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Simon Riggs
Subject Re: Problem with recent PostgreSQL relatedpressrelease
Date
Msg-id 1184337632.4512.159.camel@ebony.site
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In response to Re: Problem with recent PostgreSQL related pressrelease  (Bruce Momjian <bruce@momjian.us>)
Responses Re: Problem with recent PostgreSQL relatedpressrelease  ("Derek Rodner" <derek.rodner@enterprisedb.com>)
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On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 10:12 -0400, Bruce Momjian wrote:
> Simon Riggs wrote:
> > > is misleading and dishonest, as is
> > > preventing even the community from doing benchmarks.  Please stop.
> >
> > My understanding is that the product requires a licence key to operate
> > and that this is for revenue protection, not to explicitly prevent
> > benchmarks. My understanding is that Sales is happy to let any serious
> > buyer test the performance of the product.
>
> The point I think people are making is that while you can do benchmarks,
> you can't publish your results (which is similar to other commercial
> database license restrictions).

I was not previously aware of such a restriction.

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  Simon Riggs
  EnterpriseDB  http://www.enterprisedb.com


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