Re: Are we losing momentum? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Kevin Brown
Subject Re: Are we losing momentum?
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Msg-id 20030415003027.GY1833@filer
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In response to Re: Are we losing momentum?  (Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au>)
Responses Re: Are we losing momentum?  (Gavin Sherry <swm@linuxworld.com.au>)
Re: Are we losing momentum?  (cbbrowne@cbbrowne.com)
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Gavin Sherry wrote:
> During a lecture series at a university, I was criticised for not
> discussing Oracle instead of Postgres -- students told me that
> Oracle will make them money and Postgres wont.

Their impressions are probably based on reality as it was a couple of
years ago before the U.S. economy came crashing down.

But today?  Companies are trying to figure out how to do things
cheaper, and there are a lot of situations for which Postgres is a
good fit but for which MySQL is a bad fit -- if it'll fit at all.


I seriously think the native Win32 port of Postgres will make a big
difference, because it'll be a SQL Server killer.  Especially if it
comes with a nice administrative GUI.  :-)



-- 
Kevin Brown                          kevin@sysexperts.com



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