Re: (wtf) Top 20 Open Source Software Projects in the Enterprise - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Jim C. Nasby
Subject Re: (wtf) Top 20 Open Source Software Projects in the Enterprise
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Msg-id 20070723234926.GI39272@nasby.net
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In response to (wtf) Top 20 Open Source Software Projects in the Enterprise  ("Guido Barosio" <gbarosio@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: (wtf) Top 20 Open Source Software Projects inthe Enterprise  ("Simon Riggs" <simon@2ndquadrant.com>)
Re: (wtf) Top 20 Open Source Software Projects in the Enterprise  (Brian Hurt <bhurt@janestcapital.com>)
Re: (wtf) Top 20 Open Source Software Projects in the Enterprise  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 01:12:07AM -0300, Guido Barosio wrote:
> http://www.cioupdate.com/trends/article.php/3689871
>
> Only one database there, MySQL, wtf.

To quote...

"To come up with its Top 20 list, OpenLogic, a provider of open source
solutions that help its 700 Global 2000 enterprise customers acquire,
support, track and control open source software, queries its customers
as to which open source software projects they are using."

The reason MySQL shows and PostgreSQL doesn't is that there's all kinds
of other OSS projects that use MySQL, so it ends up in the door that
way. It's also got way more people that know it.

PostgreSQL OTOH typically only goes into an organization if they either
run into problems they can't solve in MySQL or if there's a (loud)
internal advocate.

This is why I disagree with the notion that MySQL isn't our
competition... this shows how it's popularity ends up hurting us.
--
Jim Nasby                                      decibel@decibel.org
EnterpriseDB      http://enterprisedb.com      512.569.9461 (cell)

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