I think pushing PostgreSQL itself isn't a single (probably not the best) way.
We need more real applications based on PostgreSQL. There are several of
them. OpenFTS is one of them ( I hope :-) But it lacks good documentation,
packaging and support. I wrote standalone crawler and search script for
OpenFTS to let people index and search their personal web sites, document
collections. But again, I had no time to document it, so they have not
submitted to CVS. Without support it has a little chance go to the
end user. We need commercial companies around PostgreSQL. But after
GreatBridge it's unlikely to happen. I hoped Redhat would do something,
but I don't see any movement.
Oleg
On Fri, 14 Jun 2002, Tom Lane wrote:
> Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> writes:
> > "LAMP" is just one of those stupid things that happens on the open
> > source world: one product becomes "the one" and everything else
> > gets ignored.
>
> Not only in open source. Remember Betamax? Technically a better
> standard than VHS, but it died anyway because it couldn't get enough
> market share. We should worry about the prospect that MySQL will
> achieve such complete mindshare dominance that no other open source
> database project remains viable.
>
> Great Bridge did a good job of marketing Postgres while they were
> around. Red Hat has not picked up the ball at all :-(
>
> regards, tom lane
>
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Regards,
Oleg
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