Re: First stab at 9.0 release announcement

On Thu, 2010-06-24 at 12:30 -0400, Joshua Kramer wrote:
> >       PostgreSQL is a direct descendent of a project sponsored by the
> >       Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and other
> >       groups back in 1986. These are the same people who spawned the
> >       Internet!
>
> Brainstorm: let's think of lots of ways that PostgreSQL is like the
> internet.

Other things:

Why this is the perfect time to jump to PostgreSQL with Oracle's
purchase of MySQL.

Licensing

Lack of fragmentation in the OSS space (unlike MySQL)

First class enterprise support (HS/SR/Partitioning/Functions/Recursive
Queries)

etc...

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