Re: MySQL and RHDB news; 8.0 troll - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Doug McNaught
Subject Re: MySQL and RHDB news; 8.0 troll
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In response to MySQL and RHDB news; 8.0 troll  ("Ned Lilly" <ned@nedscape.com>)
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Sean Chittenden <sean@chittenden.org> writes:

> While I may be a UNIX gear-head, I found this quote interesting and
> should be encouraging to the PostgreSQL Win32 developers:
>
> "What's more, the company said, downloads of Microsoft versions of
> MySQL outnumber Linux versions by at least four to one."

That may be partly because MySQL is included in Red Hat and most other
distributions (as is PG)--people are much less likely to download it
from mysql.com unless they need the latest version for some reason.

-Doug

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