Re: Increased company involvement - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Increased company involvement
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Msg-id 200504280530.j3S5UUE12571@candle.pha.pa.us
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In response to Re: Increased company involvement  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
Responses Re: [HACKERS] Increased company involvement
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Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> > However, there was a lot of coordination that happened with Fujitsu that
> > I don't see happening with the current companies involved.  Companies
> > are already duplicating work that is also done by community members or
> > by other companies.
>
> That is bound to happen no matter what. Look at plJava and plJ. Some
> people just feel that their way is better. Some people just don't get
> along etc...
>
> That is why we have 80 Linux distributions and a dozen FreeBSD
> distributions (can I include MacOSX?).

Do companies want to write for Blue Hat PostgreSQL and Suza PostgreSQL
because that might be what happens if we don't stay organized?  In fact,
it might have be happening already.

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