Re: What can we learn from MySQL?

Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>

From: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
To: "scott.marlowe" <scott.marlowe@ihs.com>, Greg Sabino Mullane <greg@turnstep.com>
Cc: <pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-04-28T19:30:41Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Scott,

>Personally, I don't care if 
> postgresql captures 1% of the market of 99% of the market, as long as it 
> remains the solid, reliable dbms engine it is.

I agree that we don't have to have a majority of the market to be 
"successful."  However, there is a very accurate adage in both business and 
politics:  "If you're not growing, you're shrinking."

We need to continue to grow, not necessarily to take over the market, but to 
make sure that we don't disappear entirely.    I don't want to be the 
"betamax of databases".

-- 
-Josh Berkus
 Aglio Database Solutions
 San Francisco