Re: FW: [webmaster] Comparison to MySQL - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: FW: [webmaster] Comparison to MySQL
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Msg-id 200311112132.hABLWJE04282@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: FW: [webmaster] Comparison to MySQL  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> >    -- Single-Company Project:  the MySQL Project is owned and controlled by a
> >single company, MySQL AB.   This means that the project lives or dies with
> >that company, which is currently venture-capital funded.
> >
> >

> This is also inaccurate as MySQL is GPL so the project would live on.

They don't have a development community so that would have to be formed
if the company folds, and as we can see from Firebird/SapDB, that isn't
trivial.

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