Re: InformationWeek article on PostgreSQL

Oh, and my apologies to Geoff, who did a great job in the article!

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Marc G. Fournier wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
> >
> > Guys who would contact Geoff Davidson about PostgreSQL (sorry Geoff)
> > know so little about us that it is not even worth the paper it is
> > printed on.
>
> Based on what do you jump to the conclusion that he "knows so little about
> us"?  Geoff, surprisingly enough, has a mindset of (to my chagrin at
> times) techie first, businessmen second ... he knows *more* about us then
> the average salesman out there pushing any database knows, and most of
> that is from almost 5 years of having Thomas, Vadim and I beating it into
> him.  In fact, from day 1, he had enough understanding of what OSS was,
> and how it worked, to know that to do anything that could/would harm it is
> "a Bad Thing", and in all his business dealings concerning PostgreSQL, he
> has striven(sp?) to take the "OSS ground" as required ...
>
> Based on your one sentence above, its easier for me to come to the
> conclusion that "you know so little about Geoff that I'm surprised you
> even wasted the bandwidth on it", then it is for you to come to *your*
> conclusion based on nadda ...
>
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