Re: EnterpriseDB Postgres - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy
From | Derek Rodner |
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Subject | Re: EnterpriseDB Postgres |
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Msg-id | 51494DB187D98F4C88DBEBF1F5F6D423022518EF@edb06.mail01.enterprisedb.com Whole thread Raw |
In response to | Re: EnterpriseDB Postgres ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>) |
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Re: EnterpriseDB Postgres
("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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List | pgsql-advocacy |
Josh, Actually, that is it exactly. You have summed it up so well when you said: " 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." 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. 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 > 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 - -- === The PostgreSQL Company: Command Prompt, Inc. === Sales/Support: +1.503.667.4564 || 24x7/Emergency: +1.800.492.2240 Providing the most comprehensive PostgreSQL solutions since 1997 http://www.commandprompt.com/ Donate to the PostgreSQL Project: http://www.postgresql.org/about/donate PostgreSQL Replication: http://www.commandprompt.com/products/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGufFHATb/zqfZUUQRAvSTAKCewRLOGayNQDGAo4lG/0WQcPof/gCcCChG RAg55bIQovy2M/DTAwYQJjs= =ts0g -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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