Thread: LWM 2004 Readers' Choice Nomination

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On Thursday March 24 2005 7:07, rdiamond@sys-con.com wrote:
> Thank you for registering!
>
> http://www.sys-con.com/linux/readerschoice2004

Curiously, I see PostgreSQL is not even on the ballot I see at
the site above for Best Linux Database ... could be a browser
config issue, but I do see the other popular linux dbs listed...

Ed

On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 11:03 -0700, Ed L. wrote:
> On Thursday March 24 2005 7:07, rdiamond@sys-con.com wrote:
> > Thank you for registering!
> >
> > http://www.sys-con.com/linux/readerschoice2004
>
> Curiously, I see PostgreSQL is not even on the ballot I see at
> the site above for Best Linux Database ... could be a browser
> config issue, but I do see the other popular linux dbs listed...

I don't see PostgreSQL either. That seems very odd as we are the second
widest used OSS database on Linux.

>
> Ed
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A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far away, pgsql@bluepolka.net ("Ed L.") wrote:
> On Thursday March 24 2005 7:07, rdiamond@sys-con.com wrote:
>> Thank you for registering!
>>
>> http://www.sys-con.com/linux/readerschoice2004
>
> Curiously, I see PostgreSQL is not even on the ballot I see at
> the site above for Best Linux Database ... could be a browser
> config issue, but I do see the other popular linux dbs listed...

There's nothing curious about it.

PostgreSQL isn't paying them any advertising dollars, and isn't a
"commercial product" that people pay dollars for.

If you review the items on the "ballot," you'll find a virtually
complete absence of "free software" on the list of products for people
to vote for.

This particular poll isn't about "open source" or "free software;" it
is about what are the most popular _commercial products_ for Linux.

_Pervasive PostgreSQL_ or _Mammoth PostgreSQL_ would be the relevant
_products_ to suggest, not the "free software" database, PostgreSQL.
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jd@commandprompt.com ("Joshua D. Drake") wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 11:03 -0700, Ed L. wrote:
>> On Thursday March 24 2005 7:07, rdiamond@sys-con.com wrote:
>> > Thank you for registering!
>> >
>> > http://www.sys-con.com/linux/readerschoice2004
>>
>> Curiously, I see PostgreSQL is not even on the ballot I see at
>> the site above for Best Linux Database ... could be a browser
>> config issue, but I do see the other popular linux dbs listed...
>
> I don't see PostgreSQL either. That seems very odd as we are the
> second widest used OSS database on Linux.

The poll isn't about "OSS"; it's a popularity contest for proprietary
software that runs on Linux.
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Christopher Browne wrote:
> The poll isn't about "OSS"; it's a popularity contest for proprietary
> software that runs on Linux.

It's interesting to see that MySQL is only third at the moment.


regards,
    Robin

On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 11:03 -0700, Ed L. wrote: 

On Thursday March 24 2005 7:07, rdiamond@sys-con.com wrote:   

Thank you for registering!

http://www.sys-con.com/linux/readerschoice2004     

Curiously, I see PostgreSQL is not even on the ballot I see at 
the site above for Best Linux Database ... could be a browser 
config issue, but I do see the other popular linux dbs listed...   

I don't see PostgreSQL either. That seems very odd as we are the second
widest used OSS database on Linux.
 

Ed


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On Mar 28, 2005, at 1:40 PM, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> I don't see PostgreSQL either. That seems very odd as we are the second
> widest used OSS database on Linux.

Yeah, they might as well just put up a graph of advertising dollars by
database instead of these poll results ;-)

Kevin Murphy