Re: Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source Databases - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Greg Stark
Subject Re: Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source Databases
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In response to Re: Forrester: Ingres and MySQL Lead Open Source Databases  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 4:44 PM, Joshua D. Drake<jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
> I do not think we should stop advocating. I think we should be doing so
> smartly. Dealing with Forester or any of the other shills is a waste of
> energy. Let EDB deal with that.
>
> We as a community should be focusing on recruiting -hackers and people
> who are going to use the database. Django developers, Rails developers,
> PostGIS etc... We don't have to (nor should we want to) give donkey spit
> about business uptick. The oustide developers and companies surrounding
> us will take care of that.

Uhm, yeah. What he said.

Who would have thought it would be JD who would bring this
conversation to a practical and productive place?

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greg
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