Re: [GENERAL] PostgreSQL Global Development Group

On 8 Dec 2002, Oliver Elphick wrote:

> On Sun, 2002-12-08 at 20:52, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> > > Why do you say that?
> >
> > Because of this taken from the above quoted text:
> >
> > "they were under constant assault from their clients to use oracle or db2"
> >
> > Last I looked neither Oracle or DB2 were open source, but they both just
> > happen to be commercial and I don't see mysql mentioned.
>
> This is a reason to increase marketing effort.  I know the word has
> pejorative overtones in our community, but it means talking about
> PostgreSQL so that the PHBs hear about it and therefore begin to feel
> comfortable about using it.
>
> If something is familiar, it feels safe.  We need to make PostgreSQL
> familiar.  That's why we need marketing.

Then why wasn't mysql in the list?  It's familiar.

Vince.
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