Jonah H. Harris wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 11:02 PM, Scott Marlowe <scott.marlowe@gmail.com> wrote:
> > The difference is HE put forth an opinion about the pg developers
> > being smarter, but you put forth what seems like a statement of fact
> > with no evidence to back it up. One is quite subjective and open for
> > debate on both sides, and often to good effect. The other is a
> > statement of fact regarding scalability in apparently all usage
> > circumstances, since it wasn't in any way clarified if you were
> > talking about a narrow usage case or all of the possible and / or
> > probably ones.
>
> Agreed. It's just that, because I know quite a few of the engineers
> working on Oracle and SQL Server, it generally pisses me off to see
> people make blanket statements about one group being smarter than
> another when they probably have no basis for comparison. It's all
> good though, I'm just cranky tonight.
I am sure there are smart people at all the database companies. I do
believe that open source development harnesses the abilities of its
intelligent people better than commercial companies.
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