On Jul 24, 2007, at 7:34 AM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> It kind of depends. The reality is, regardless of what all of us Pg
> zealots would like to think, is that MySQL is now buzzword
> compliant. It really doesn't matter a hoot whether or not the
> buzzword compliance is of a solid implementation or not.
Seems buzzword compliance is never based on actual merit...
> But then again, it hasn't hurt us yet and I don't think it will. I
> would rather have 1000 customers who make intelligent decisions
> about their infrastructure than 5000 that are ignorant buffoons who
> spend more time listening to sales people than actually making
> knowledgeable decisions.
FreeBSD used to be far superior to Linux in almost every way. Then
Linux became buzzword complaint, a lot of big companies spent a lot
of money on it, and it's now equal to or superior to FreeBSD in
almost any measure.
This is already becoming a threat to PostgreSQL; witness all the
stuff that Google has released for MySQL. Fortunately our open
community and BSD license has allowed commercial companies to readily
produce a lot of improvements for PostgreSQL... but imagine what
would happen if a really major company was to decide it needed to
drastically improve MySQL... we could easily end up becoming the
worlds 2nd most advanced open-source database.
--
Jim Nasby jim@nasby.net
EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com 512.569.9461 (cell)
