Re: Call from Info World - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Call from Info World
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In response to Re: Call from Info World  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
Responses Re: Call from Info World  (Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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>Anyway, Apache might be closest.
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Don't forget Mozilla with the Mozilla Foundation.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake



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>>>I also get the impression that there's been a significant split between Zend
>>>Inc. and the larger PHP community lately (over Parrot, mostly, I think), so
>>>Zend obviously don't "control" the PHP project.
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>>Well... I don't know that I would say they control the project, but it
>>does seem that php's advances are directly linked to the direction of
>>Zend. The whole zend engine underscores the point, and I think that a
>>lot of the OO stuff in php5 was "eagerly desired" by the zend folks.
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>Well, here is a quote from my PHP International conference report:
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>>I spent time with a number of folks at the event.  One disturbing thing,
>>without going into deals, is that the PHP development community seems to
>>have every disfunction I can think of.  That upset me because I assumed
>>open source development communities were just all big, happy places, but
>>the reality I now know is quite different.  That scared me and I
>>realized it could happen to PostgreSQL one day if we are not diligent.
>>Sobering.
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>This "disfunction" includes being controlled mostly by what is good for Zend.
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>>The truth is that to be a "name" project you need to interface with the
>>media, and the media is generally best at interfacing with companies.
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>Yep, but with our press release and contact, they seem to be able to deal with
>our structured community too.
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