My few cents are as follows:
- EnterpriseDB is certainly trying our best to be good Postgres community citizens.
- The Postgres community is incredibly rich and diverse. It's getting ever stronger and momentum is gaining for the worlds most advanced open source database. We're proud to be a part of this massive collaborative effort that is bigger than any individual, company, country, or continent.
- I don't think it's wise to ponder the community moving in a "MySQL" direction where one company controls the community. This is certainly NOT EDB's intention (and we always stress it to anyone who suggests otherwise).
- There are many, many, many people and companies who are NOT attracted to Oracle compatibility features and are going to always download and use the core version of Postgres. This is the beauty of the ever friendly & flexible BSD license.
- We are trying to provide an increasing amount of functionality that helps free Oracle (and other proprietary DB vendors) customers from vendor lock-in and exhorbitant pricing. Can this be a bad thing??
--Denis Lussier
Chief Architect and Chairman
Just wondering what the general concencus is about enterpriseDB from the
pgsql community? good or bad?
I'm not 100% up to speed, with opensource development - but they seem to
have a policy to contribute improvements
back to pgsql. This sounds (to me) like a good thing for the pgsql
development, and a good opensource philosophy but:
Is there a danger that users new to databases, will skip pgsql
alltogether and use edb's free version
or have i missed something obvious here?
again, appolligies if i'm showing a lack of knowledge about opensource here?
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