Josh Berkus wrote:
> Chris,
>
> > If people were to decide that, based on the badinage, both the MySQL
> > people and the PostgreSQL people were a bunch of jerks, Firebird might
> > very well come out the "winner."
> >
> > Both 'sides' have been known to point to Firebird as a 'second choice'
> > if their respective system was somehow unacceptable...
>
> Jan wasn't serious about Firebird.
>
> The "third parties" in this whole issue are Oracle, Microsoft & IBM (DB2).
>
> Particulary Oracle; in the last year Larry has devoted a lot of ink to the
> idea that "Open Source projects can make a good operating system, but an
> enterprise database is far too complex for any real OSS implementation."
> (see the Linux Magazine interview with him) It's FUD he's been spreading as
> part of the Oracle+RedHat campaign to protect Oracle's market share from us
> and MySQL at the same time as Oracle migrates its customers to Linux.
Clearly he can't believe you can open source develop an OS but not a
database --- I am wondering what they are thinking over at Oracle.
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