Re: Need for PostgreSQL demand? - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Steve Atkins
Subject Re: Need for PostgreSQL demand?
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Msg-id 36123C43-3F64-418B-BFEE-C5B5D7942D3E@blighty.com
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In response to Re: Need for PostgreSQL demand?  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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On Nov 4, 2007, at 10:00 PM, Josh Berkus wrote:

> Ron, Kevin,
>
>>> I think the best possible PostgreSQL marketing would be for
>>> someone to
>>> develop a knock-your-socks-off killer app.  It wouldn't have to be
>
> This is why I tried hard to promote Once:Radix when it open-
> sourced. However, the reception from our community has been
> lukewarm at best. Personally, I see a Filemaker replacement which
> runs on PG to be a killer app, but nobody wants to listen to me,
> apparently.

Is it possible that the environments that might be most interested in
that sort of an application (small or internal developer targeting
enterprise) might be particularly sensitive to it being GPL licensed?

Cheers,
   Steve


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