Re: Postgres v MySQL 5.0 - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: Postgres v MySQL 5.0
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Msg-id 20061114173529.GA90133@nasby.net
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In response to Re: Postgres v MySQL 5.0  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 04:28:40AM -0800, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> Greg Sabino Mullane wrote:
> >However, they both want to see their products do well and gain mind and
> >market share. I think our advocacy efforts are severely lacking at the
> >moment, and I'd certainly not be adverse to seeing more effort by both
> >the PG community and the PG corporations to fix this. And yes, MySQL
> >is certainly one of our competitors: saying otherwise is wishful thinking
> >at best.
> >
> I believe you know, that you don't have to convince me that we need
> better advocacy. My point is...
> MySQL in general isn't the target. We don't have to care if you are a
> MySQL or Oracle developer.
> We just need to positively advocate *our* database. The rest will fall
> into place on its own.

Sure, but part of that positioning is educating people on how we're
different than MySQL, since a huge number of developers don't understand
that.
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Jim Nasby                                            jim@nasby.net
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