Re: Release, 3rd draft

On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 11:46:05AM -0700, Joshua D. Drake wrote:
>
> >
> > Didn't someone mention something like 2 000 000 beta downloads for 5.0?
> > If so, that an avg of 153k per beta ... with that many testers, is their
> > code *that* bad that they can't find all the bugs quicker then that?
>
> I don't think we should compare ourselves to the MySQL metric. It
> doesn't do us any good. The reality is, MySQL is more popular. There
> isn't any arguing that.
>
> Just because it is more popular doesn't make it better and if we try to
> compete on their metrics we are going to loose.
>
> We have to compete on our metrics...
>
> PostgreSQL is the most advanced Open Source Database with enterprise
> features that serious database developers demand, such as two-phase
> commit, point in time recovery and tablespaces. Other popular (have to
> have this caveat because of Ingres) Open Source Databases don't even
> come close.

You forgot to mention that we read and write to disk, instead of
/dev/random and /dev/null. ;P
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