Re: Are we losing momentum?

Kevin Brown <kevin@sysexperts.com>

From: Kevin Brown <kevin@sysexperts.com>
To: pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2003-04-15T00:30:27Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Gavin Sherry wrote:
> During a lecture series at a university, I was criticised for not
> discussing Oracle instead of Postgres -- students told me that
> Oracle will make them money and Postgres wont.

Their impressions are probably based on reality as it was a couple of
years ago before the U.S. economy came crashing down.

But today?  Companies are trying to figure out how to do things
cheaper, and there are a lot of situations for which Postgres is a
good fit but for which MySQL is a bad fit -- if it'll fit at all.


I seriously think the native Win32 port of Postgres will make a big
difference, because it'll be a SQL Server killer.  Especially if it
comes with a nice administrative GUI.  :-)



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Kevin Brown					      kevin@sysexperts.com