Thread: 8.0 just hit slashdot!
On Wednesday 19 January 2005 08:49, Merlin Moncure wrote: > http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/19/1312224&tid=221&tid=198&t > id=185 A great day to get my moderator points... Great timing, Slashdot....:-) -- Lamar Owen Director of Information Technology Pisgah Astronomical Research Institute 1 PARI Drive Rosman, NC 28772 (828)862-5554 www.pari.edu
On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 08:49 -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote: > http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/19/1312224&tid=221&tid=198&t > id=185 Man, tough crowd. Did you see how much they were talking about count(*)? 8.0 is an amazing release, I can't believe such a negative thread got so much attention, especially since the issue is so insignificant. Congratulations to the developers and release people, you did a great job! Regards, Jeff Davis
Jeff Davis wrote: >On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 08:49 -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote: > > >>http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/19/1312224&tid=221&tid=198&t >>id=185 >> >> > > >Man, tough crowd. Did you see how much they were talking about count(*)? > > Slashdot is good for press, not intelligent conversation. Most of the people commenting on Slashdot about PostgreSQL don't really have a clue about it... I saw a lot of... there is no replication and even Pervasive is the first commercial company to support it ;) Sincerely, Joshua D. Drake >8.0 is an amazing release, I can't believe such a negative thread got so >much attention, especially since the issue is so insignificant. > >Congratulations to the developers and release people, you did a great >job! > >Regards, > Jeff Davis > > >---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- >TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly > > -- Command Prompt, Inc., home of Mammoth PostgreSQL - S/ODBC and S/JDBC Postgresql support, programming shared hosting and dedicated hosting. +1-503-667-4564 - jd@commandprompt.com - http://www.commandprompt.com PostgreSQL Replicator -- production quality replication for PostgreSQL
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Slashdot as always been religious about MySQL, and took a long time for even PHP to become accepted. This was actually a great response coming from a very MySQL-is-the-only-database-for-the-universe crowd... On Wed, 19 Jan 2005 13:14:36 -0800, Jeff Davis <jdavis-pgsql@empires.org> wrote: > On Wed, 2005-01-19 at 08:49 -0500, Merlin Moncure wrote: > > http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/19/1312224&tid=221&tid=198&t > > id=185 > > > Man, tough crowd. Did you see how much they were talking about count(*)? > > 8.0 is an amazing release, I can't believe such a negative thread got so > much attention, especially since the issue is so insignificant.
Mitch, Jeff, > Slashdot as always been religious about MySQL, and took a long time > for even PHP to become accepted. > > This was actually a great response coming from a very > MySQL-is-the-only-database-for-the-universe crowd... Actually, our "Slashdot Image" has been overwhelming positive over the last year. This is mainly because Slashdot hates a successful (by some definition) company, and always supports the "underdog". Check any post on Red Hat, and you'll see how they became "the evil empire" the first quarter they posted a profit. Currently, this works in our favor, but if MySQL started to fall apart, it would turn against us. -- --Josh Josh Berkus Aglio Database Solutions San Francisco
Josh Berkus wrote: > This is mainly because Slashdot hates a successful > (by some definition) company, and always supports the "underdog". [...] > Currently, this works in our favor, but if MySQL started to fall > apart, it would turn against us. Yup. Wish I could mod your post +5 insightful. :)