Re: [pgsql-advocacy] What can we learn from MySQL? - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Payne
Subject Re: [pgsql-advocacy] What can we learn from MySQL?
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Msg-id IKEAIJJKOIHBCCIHFLFNGEGODBAA.andy@payne.org
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In response to Re: [pgsql-advocacy] What can we learn from MySQL?  ("Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>)
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Joshua wrote:

> Why would someone fund a "new" PostgreSQL project when there are several
> viable commercial entities doing the job right now?

Four words:  "size of marketing budget".

As a technology guy, it bugs me to acknowledge that.  But having lived
through this a few times, it is the way it works.

-andy



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