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Re: Oracle and PostgreSQL...

Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com>

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From: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>
To: Chris Travers <chris@travelamericas.com>
Cc: pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org
Date: 2005-10-19T21:45:16Z
Lists: pgsql-general 
>>
>> To the end of dismissing the serious-but-free competition in public. 
>> If Oracle is talking to the computer press, they have enough
>> experience to know just how much they can play with stating the way
>> the world is, and have it quoted verbatim as revealed truth.  Apart
>> from database weenies like us, people reading the Oracle
>> pronouncement conflating PostgreSQL and other database systems will
>> just think it's true.
>>
> You mean like that RDBMS comparison on Dev-X by the marketing head of 
> Daffodil?  Somehow I don't think that this is limited to Oracle...


FYI, I have been tasked by Devx to rewrite that comparison.

Sincerely,

Joshua D. Drake

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