[Sorry for the delay.. somehow this message just came through for me]
On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 7:56 AM, Rob Napier <rob@doitonce.net.au> wrote:
> If you want to win awards you need to dedicate someone to chasing them.
That's part of it, I'm sure. Unfortunately, a lot of the awards MySQL
brags about are "reader's choice awards", e.g. from LinuxQuestions.org
or Linux Journal. And it seems like the trend has been to delegate
such decision making to the users -- LinuxJournal used to have an
"Editor's Choice Awards" which Postgres won back in 2006, but sadly it
seems this was discontinued in favor of the Reader's Choice Awards the
year after (?). And since there are more users on MySQL, they win
handily there.
Josh