Re: What can we learn from MySQL?

On Thu, 2004-04-29 at 00:48, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 29, 2004 at 01:30:23 -0000,
>   Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com> wrote:
> > I care. More market share equals more jobs, which equals more people
> > working on the project. It's all well and good to treat Postgres as
> > an academic exercise, but at some point the work needs to be applied
> > to real world stuff. We are competing with real-world, commercial
> > projects right now, and the success of how well we do will directly
> > impact this project. Do you think that Red Hat will continue to employ
> > Tom Lane if Postgres fades away into a footnote and something else
> > becomes the database of choice for Red Hat? Do you realize that every
> > time a company chooses us, jobs are created for people who use,
> > test, and even develop PostgreSQL?
> 
> And more support questions get asked taking time away from development.
> For companies the net balance is probably in postgres' favor on average.
> However, getting individuals to use postgres who have no background
> in databases may be a net minus. Hopefully that won't happen. It will
> be interesting to see what happens to the support lists after the
> windows port is available.
> 

Which is one of the reasons that I think chasing my$ql's market is the
wrong way to go. We need to be looking for oracle/db2 converts... or at
the least informix/progress/m$ or other 2nd tier databases that we are
most likely already superior too. 

Robert Treat
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