Re: [HACKERS] What can we learn from MySQL?
Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>
From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Andrew Payne <andy@payne.org>
Cc: Bruce Momjian <pgman@candle.pha.pa.us>, PostgreSQL-development <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, PostgreSQL advocacy <pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org>
Date: 2004-04-30T18:20:07Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
> > The difference is that you could now correct for Great Bridge's problems, > which include but are not limited to: timing (4 years has changed a lot for > commercial acceptance of open source), funding ($25m was too much), and > strategy (this is not an quick attempt to copy Red Hat). > > I think such a project, with the right parameters, is very fundable. If > anyone wants to talk about that, you should drop me an email off-list; we're > probably stepping out of topic for the hacker and advocacy lists. Why would someone fund a "new" PostgreSQL project when there are several viable commercial entities doing the job right now? J > > -andy > > > ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- > TIP 3: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate > subscribe-nomail command to majordomo@postgresql.org so that your > message can get through to the mailing list cleanly