Re: EnterpriseDB Postgres - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy
From | Derek Rodner |
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Subject | Re: EnterpriseDB Postgres |
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Msg-id | 51494DB187D98F4C88DBEBF1F5F6D4230145EF5A@edb06.mail01.enterprisedb.com Whole thread Raw |
In response to | EnterpriseDB Postgres (Lukas Kahwe Smith <smith@pooteeweet.org>) |
List | pgsql-advocacy |
Though I would love to continue this discussion because I always learn so much about community interaction in these debates, I am now late for booth duty. I hope you will realize that our intention is not malicious and we benefit from the community just as you benefit from our PR ;).
I am more than happy to continue this discussion later tonight or you can always call my cell.
Derek M. Rodner
Director, Product Strategy
EnterpriseDB Corporation
732-331-1333 office
484-252-1943 cell
www.enterprisedb.com
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From: Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Derek Rodner
Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org <pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org>
Sent: Wed Aug 08 12:49:46 2007
Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] EnterpriseDB Postgres
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Derek Rodner wrote:
> Josh,
>
> We are trying to make it easy for the newbies and that is what this new
> distribution and site are designed for!!!!!
>
> As for the comment about the Fortune 1000? They ALL RUN MySQL
> somewhere. We know. We have talked to them. They actually recognize
> that it is not enterprise-class, etc. but, it was free and easy to use.
They don't run it where they would be running Oracle. They do run
PostgreSQL in those spots. Oh and as a sticking point, I said Fortune
5000 ;)
Sincerely,
Joshua D. Drake
>
>
>
> Derek M. Rodner
> Director, Product Strategy
> EnterpriseDB Corporation
> 732.331.1333 office
> 484.252.1943 cell
> www.enterprisedb.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joshua D. Drake [mailto:jd@commandprompt.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 9:37 AM
> To: Derek Rodner
> Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
> Subject: Re: [pgsql-advocacy] EnterpriseDB Postgres
>
>> thrive on that. My college basketball team is always the underdog.
>> EnterpriseDB is the underdog to Oracle. Postgres is the underdog to
>> MySQL. I am starting to get sick of that and want Postgres to stop
>> being the underdog. We know we are better than MySQL. Most of the
>
> I was with you, until right here. I think you have vastly misestimated
> the market. I will concur that PostgreSQL is the underdog to MySQL in
> one very specific sense:
>
> The ignorant and the code monkey.
>
> The knowledgable (including many of the fortune 5000) won't touch MySQL
> because it is broke, where PostgreSQL isn't.
>
> Now all that being said, there is zero argument that if you can get all
> the people running Ubuntu, wanting to run PostgreSQL that our community
> will grow. However I wonder, seriously how much of our community would
> be willing to deal with that level of newness.
>
> A good portion of our community are DBMS snobs. They have no basis in
> reality and are more interested in what is "right" versus what actually
> "works".
>
> Is that bad? I don't know, sometimes, sometimes not.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Joshua D. Drake
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