Re: [pgsql-advocacy] Oracle buys Innobase - Mailing list pgsql-general

Matthew Terenzio wrote:
> As much as I respect Marc and Postgresql.org, I can't see Oracle hiring
> him away as a "killer" threat to the community. People would set up
> camp somewhere else, like Command Prompt. It would hurt things for a
> while but the software is too important to too many to be killed by a
> domain name or person.

Right, all these damages are temporary, which is probably why we haven't
been attacked yet.

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> On Oct 12, 2005, at 8:47 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
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> > On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Jan Wieck wrote:
> >
> >> On 10/12/2005 6:18 PM, Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> >>
> >>> On Wed, 12 Oct 2005, Jussi Mikkola wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>> Well, if the PostgreSQL developers would be hired away from the
> >>>> project with big money, would that not mean, that the project would
> >>>> be a good path to earn a lot of money. So, new talented developers
> >>>> could join the project and see that as a path to high salary jobs??
> >>> Wow, what a twisted way to look at it ... not entirely inaccurate,
> >>> but twisted :)
> >>
> >> Oracle could even develop an exceptional interest in keeping
> >> PostgreSQL alive as it's "future DB engineer forge".
> >
> > Definitely ... get new developers involved over here to 'cut their
> > teeth' and then pull them over there once they are through the
> > teething period :) Or, encourage them to work here wihle still in
> > University, learn DB internals ...
> >
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> > Marc G. Fournier           Hub.Org Networking Services
> > (http://www.hub.org)
> > Email: scrappy@hub.org           Yahoo!: yscrappy              ICQ:
> > 7615664
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