Re: Fwd: Favorite DB poll on ORA - Mailing list pgsql-advocacy

From Christopher Browne
Subject Re: Fwd: Favorite DB poll on ORA
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In response to Fwd: Favorite DB poll on ORA  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, neilc@samurai.com (Neil Conway) wrote:
> Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com> writes:
>> Amusingly, the Firebird people have really learned to rally the
>> troops for these online polls; they're leading this one as well.
>
> ... which really points out what a complete waste of time these kinds
> of internet polls are.

That is certainly the case for this one.

Building a "voting bot" would doubtless be quite easy.

And the results are silly, anyways; it's nothing more than a vague
popularity contest.  For instance, I'd rather use Informix than most
of the other options, but its percentage of popularity is just
vanishingly minscule.
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