Re: trash talk

Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-08-03 at 13:30, David Parker wrote:
> > In an article about IBM's releasing Cloudscape to Apache, 
> > 
> > http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1630856,00.asp
> > 
> > eWeek says:
> > 
> > "The developer community for Cloudscape now consists of about 80 IBM
> > developers, Rivot said. IBM of course anticipates that population will
> > explode when the open-source community gets its hand on the code, but
> > just because a product goes open source doesn't mean it will succeed, as
> > can be witnessed by the failure of the PostgreSQL database to thrive
> > under this model."
> > 
> > It's amazing how much list activity there is for this "dead" database!
> > ;-)
> 
> That's because he's a marketeer, not a developer or a sysadmin.  He only
> understands market-speak.
> 
> For him, thrive == grow visible market share, make me some money, let me
> buy myself an expensive bottle of wine.
> For us, thrive == grow user base, developer base, code base, knowledge
> base, let me buy a you a pizza.
> 
> I.e. the people who use postgresql mostly love, the people who don't
> mostly haven't heard of it.  No buzz, no hype.  For people who rely on
> PostgreSQL to get the job done, this is not a disadvantage.

I think he meant to say SAPDB.

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