Re: Great Bridge benchmark results for Postgres, 4 others

Fabrice Scemama <fabrice@scemama.org>

From: Fabrice Scemama <fabrice@scemama.org>
To: Ned Lilly <ned@greatbridge.com>
Cc: pgsql-general@postgresql.org
Date: 2000-08-16T09:44:07Z
Lists: pgsql-general
Quoted from http://www.greatbridge.com/about/ourteam.html :

> Ned Lilly
> Vice President of Evangelism and Hacker Relations
>
> Ned Lilly brings significant experience in business development, operations
> management and technology strategy to Great Bridge. Before joining Great
> Bridge, he served as a New Ventures Director for Landmark Communications,
> where he was instrumental in building the business plan for Great Bridge. Lilly
> has also held senior management positions in several Internet startups, including
> Vice President of an automotive auction business and General Manager of an
> online reservations company. He has managed the development of multiple
> technology architectures on open source software systems. He holds a BA from
> the University of Virginia and MA from George Washington University.

Ned, I just love Postgres... I strongly believe it can compete
with major commercial DBMS, and that it rules over free DBMS
(be opensource or not, like MySQL).

But I think Postgres' performance should not be over-boasted,
because such behaviour could only mislead and possibly deceipt
future users. As a commercial consulting company, you might
consider adding some disclaimers to your benchmarks.

Fabrice