Re: Call from Info World - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Call from Info World
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Msg-id 200311230336.hAN3aYc05345@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Call from Info World  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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The Info World article has appeared:

    http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/11/20/HNpostgre_1.html

Based on the questions he asked, I thought he was going to do a more
detailed article, but I now realize it was probably just so he
understands the project itself.

You can see that they refer to us as a "company" earlier in the article:

    "the company also has added"

Anyway, at the end, they clarify that it is an open source project.
Hopefully this is the start of many more articles.

They only mentioned SRA.   I was hoping he would say we have support
companies world-wide.  Anyway, it was a nice article.

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Josh Berkus wrote:
> Guys,
>
> > > Hmm... I don't see amanda, openacs, or ltsp all that visible to the
> > > greater tech (ie. commercially driven) community, and Perl and Python
> > > aren't really the same; there not a piece of software like postgresql.
>
> So?  They are open source projects.    Linux isn't a piece of software like us
> either.
>
> > Yea, I said Apache didn't fit the list, but I was thinking of Sendmail
> > at the time, which is controlled by Sendmail, Inc.  (Talk about
> > confusing with PostgreSQL, Inc.  Yuck.)
> >
> > Anyway, Apache might be closest.
>
> No, Apache is very dominated by IBM, at least they were a year ago ... I've
> heard lots of bitching about it from their mailing lists and nasty politics.
>
> Other projects that I'mm pretty sure aren't corporate-run:  Samba, Abiword,
> Gnucash, Webmin, OpenGroupware, Hordemail.
>
> I believe that KDE is rather dominated by SuSE these days, but I could be
> wrong.
>
> --
> Josh Berkus
> Aglio Database Solutions
> San Francisco
>

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