Re: [HACKERS] What can we learn from MySQL?

Andrew Payne <andy@payne.org>

From: "Andrew Payne" <andy@payne.org>

To: "Joshua D. Drake" <jd@commandprompt.com>

Cc: "PostgreSQL-development" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>, "PostgreSQL advocacy" <pgsql-advocacy@postgresql.org>

Date: 2004-05-01T14:28:25Z

Lists: pgsql-hackers

Joshua wrote:

> Why would someone fund a "new" PostgreSQL project when there are several
> viable commercial entities doing the job right now?

Four words:  "size of marketing budget".

As a technology guy, it bugs me to acknowledge that.  But having lived
through this a few times, it is the way it works.

-andy